Shakespeare's England . The Crown Inn, CHAPTER X RELICS OF LORD BYRON S^ HE Byron Memorial Loan Collection, thatwas displayed at the Albert MemorialHall, for a short time in the summer of1877, did not attract much attention: yetit was a vastly impressive show of catalogue names seventy-four objects, together withthirty-nine designs for a monument to Byron. Thedesign that has been chosen presents a seated figure, ofthe young sailor-boy type. The right hand supportsthe chin; the left, resting on the left knee, holds anopen book and a pencil. The dress consists of a looseshir
Shakespeare's England . The Crown Inn, CHAPTER X RELICS OF LORD BYRON S^ HE Byron Memorial Loan Collection, thatwas displayed at the Albert MemorialHall, for a short time in the summer of1877, did not attract much attention: yetit was a vastly impressive show of catalogue names seventy-four objects, together withthirty-nine designs for a monument to Byron. Thedesign that has been chosen presents a seated figure, ofthe young sailor-boy type. The right hand supportsthe chin; the left, resting on the left knee, holds anopen book and a pencil. The dress consists of a looseshirt, open at the throat and on the bosom, a flowingneckcloth, and wide, marine trousers. Byrons — commemorated in the well-known misan-thropic epitaph — To mark a friends remains tliese stones arise,I never knew but one, and here he lies — is shown, in effigy, at the poets feet. The treatmentof the subject, in this model, certainly deserves to be 98 CHAP. X RELICS OF LORD BYRON 99 called free, but the general effect of the wor
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