Turner's original painting 'Italy - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1832 and refers to Lord Byron's epic poem 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' which tells of the journey of a young man through a Romantic land described as 'a work divine / A blending of all beauties, streams and dells / Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, cornfield, mountain, vine.' Published in 1861 by the Art Union of London this work was James Tibbetts Willmore's last completed plate after Turner.