Picture No | 10000996 |
Date | circa 1823 |
Description | Lord George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron |
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George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824) in the uniform of a Greek patriot, including a cavalry helmet which he designed himself, based on descriptions of armour in Homer's Iliad. Byron supported the Greeks in their War of Independence against the Turks.
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Source | unnamed artist in Harper's monthly magazine February 1894 page 369 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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