Lot 251: William Purser

William Purser
1790-1852
the house where lord byron died, missolonghi, greece
signed l.r.: W Purser and inscribed verso: Original Drawing of Missolonghi/(by Purser)/Shewing the room in which Ld Byron/died
watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour, scratching out and gum arabic
13.5 by 20 cm., 5 1/4 by 8 in.
Missolonghi is a port on the Gulf of Patrai in west central Greece. It was a Greek stronghold during the Greek War of Independence in the 1820s and Byron died there of a fever in 1824