39. ‘Foscari’ by John Rogers Herbert
NLS H.37.b.4
‘Foscari’ by John Rogers Herbert in Charles Heath’s Illustrations to the works of Lord Byron. London: A Fullarton & Co., 1846. NLS H.37.b.4Herbert was one of the 19 leading artists who contributed illustrations to this collection of engravings of Byron’s life and work. Early in his career Herbert specialised in Italian subjects and Romantic literature, so Byron’s Marino Faliero and The Two Foscari had obvious appeal to him.
Herbert’s painting depicts the scene where the elderly Doge has just witnessed the death of his son, whom he has been obliged by his sense of civic duty to condemn to exile, and grieves with his daughter-in-law.
In this exhibition
- Acknowledgements & foreword
- Introduction
- Britannia: Parliament, party & the Prince
- Napoleon: Emperor, expectation & exile
- Italy: politics, patriotism & plays
- Introduction to: Italy: politics, patriotism & plays
- 30. Marino Faliero, fragmentary proof for the first edition, 1820, corrected by Byron
- 31. & 32. Playbill for a performance of Marino Faliero, 1821, with accompanying letter defending the performance
- 33. Public notice about a performance of Byron’s Doge of Venice, 1821
- 34. Letter from Byron to John Murray II, 28-9 September 1820
- 35. & 36. Letters from Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 26 April and 12 October 1821
- 37. The Two Foscari. An historical tragedy
- 38. Notes in Italian, in an unknown hand, used by Byron for Marino Faliero
- 39. ‘Foscari’ by John Rogers Herbert
- 40. Pencil and watercolour sketch of Byron at Genoa, attributed to Count Alfred D’Orsay, April or May 1823
- 41. Byron’s swordstick
- Greece: Hellenism & heroism
- Editions used as sources