Literary Advertising and the Shaping of British Romanticism by Mason Nicholas

Author:Mason, Nicholas [Mason, Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2013-08-22T14:00:00+00:00

Figure 4.2. Henry Robinson’s engraving of H. W. Pickersgill’s 1825 portrait of Landon. The ostentatious hat is apparently Robinson’s addition. (Frontispiece to vol. 3 of the Autobiography of William Jerdan.)

While neither of the two L.E.L. portraits from the 1820s, then, was produced at the poet’s behest for promotional purposes, Jerdan and Landon must have taken their commission and reception as indications of a public appetite for images of the poet. Consequently, beginning in the early 1830s, they began actively working to make L.E.L. iconic in the broadest senses of the word. To begin with, Landon sat for a second portrait by Pickersgill. Little is known of this painting, as it appears to have disappeared until an engraving of it by a C. Cook appeared in Bentley’s Miscellany in 1848 (see Figure 4.4).

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