Well, this is interesting (and apposite)
Do admit, this is of a certain relevance to things I'm doing elsewhere:
Queers, Homosexuals, and Activists in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain?
Fascinating stuff, as is the poem Don Leon itself and the notes thereunto as mentioned in that post.*
What particular intrigues me is that the notes to that poem specifically allude to the relationship depicted in this print as concerning a lesbian relationship, because I've never been sure what to make of it and whether it's actually about one or other of the husbands or both of them.
(Yes! some time I must do MOAR RESEARCH about those ladies.)
*Though a bit icked by the attacks on Lady Byron, though one knows that the disaster of their marriage was A Thing and had parties drawn up and embattled on both sides. This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2312565.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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