Description
Mounted with two printed excerpts, one cut from "Don Juan" (1819-1824) by Lord Byron, Canto IV, Stanza LXXVI: “There, on the green and village-cotted hill, is/ (Flank'd by the Hellespont and by the sea)/ Entomb'd the bravest of the brave, Achilles:/ They say so-(Briant says the contrary:)/ And further downward, tall and towering, still is/ The tumulus—of whom—Heaven knows! 't may be/ Patroclus, Ajax, or Protesilaus,—/ All heroes, who if living still would slay us.” The second excerpt is from "The Bride of Abydos" (1813) by Lord Byron, Canto II, Stanza IV: “The night hath closed on Helle's stream,/ Nor yet hath risen on Ida's hill/ That moon, which shone on his high theme;/ No warrior chides her peaceful beam,/ But conscious shepherds bless it still./ Their flocks are grazing on the mound/ Of him who felt the Dardan's arrow:/ That mighty heap of gathered ground/ Which Ammon's (24) son ran proudly round,/By nations raised, by monarchs crown’d,/ Is now a lone and nameless barrow!/Within—thy dwelling-place how narrow!/Without—can only strangers breathe/The name of him that was beneath:/ Dust long outlasts the storied stone,/ But thou—thy very dust is gone!” From: "Album No.5, Carelli's Sketches, 1839, Sicily & the East".
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image © Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth. Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees.
Location
Mount Ida, Crete, Greece
Country
Greece
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Category
Landscapes & Seascapes
