Artist: Louis Édouard Fournier
datum: 1889
storlek: 2134 x 1295 cm
museum: Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Teknik: Oil On Canvas
Percy Bysshe Shelley, the Romantic poet, drowned in 1822 when his yacht was wrecked in a storm in the Gulf of Spezzia, Italy. His body was cremated and his remains later buried at the Protestant cemetery in Rome. Fournier’s painting shows the funeral pyre surrounded by three of the dead poet’s closest friends. From left to right, they are the author and adventurer, Trelawney, Leigh Hunt and Shelley’s fellow-poet, Lord Byron. In Trelawney’s own account of the event,
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