The Funeral of Shelley | Louis Edouard Fournier | 1889 Size:18"x12" Two small figures walk ahead

Two small figures walk ahead

circa 1926

guides mankind toward divine wisdom and celestial rewards

the artwork embodies a dark

The Funeral of Shelley | Louis Edouard Fournier | 1889 Size:18"x12" Two small figures walk aheadPercy Bysshe Shelley, the Romantic poet, drowned in 1822. His yacht was wrecked in a storm in the Gulf of Spezzia, Italy. His body was cremated and his remains later buried at the Protestant cemetery in Rome. Fournier's painting shows the funeral pyre surrounded by three of the dead poet's closest friends. From left to right they are the author and adventurer Trelawny and Shelleys fellow poets Leigh Hunt and Byron. In Trelawny's own account of the