Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage – Italy is an 1832 landscape painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner. It depicts a scene from the poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord Byron. Turner possibly drew some inspiration from his friend Charles Lock Eastlake's 1827 painting Lord Byron's Dream.^[1] It also reflects the influence of the seventeenth century artist Claude Lorrain.^[2]

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage – Italy
Artist	J. M. W. Turner
Year	1832
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	142.2 cm × 248.3 cm (56.0 in × 97.8 in)
Location	Tate Britain, London
Accession	N00516
Website	tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-childe-harolds-pilgrimage-italy-n00516

It was exhibited at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1832 at Somerset House. It was extremely popular with visitors, but critics were unflattering about its use of colour.^[3] Is now part of the collection of Tate Britain, having been part of the Turner Bequest in 1856.

See also

• List of paintings by J. M. W. Turner