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Inscribed in graphite, verso, upper left: "OK"

Lettered, lower left: "PAINTED BY C.I. EASTLAKE, R.A. | A CHANGE CAME O'ER THE SPIRIT OF MY DREAM, | THE BOY WAS SPRUNG TO MANHOOD: IN THE WILDS | OF FIERY CLIMES HE MADE HIMSELF A HOME, | AND HIS SOUL DRANK THEIR SUNBEAMS: HE WAS GIRT | WITH STRANGE AND DUSKY ASPECTS; HE WAS NOT | HIMSELF LIKE WHAT HE HAD BEEN; ON THE SEA | AND ON THE SHORE HE WAS A WANDERER; | THERE WAS A MANSS OF MANY IMAGES | CROWDED LIKE WAVES UPON ME, BUT HE WAS | A PART OF ALL:"; lettered, lower right: "ENGRAVED BY J.T. WILLMORE. | AND IN THE LAST HE LAY | REPOSING FROM THE NOON-TIDE SULTRINESS, | COUCH'D AMONG FALLEN COLUMNS, IN THE SHADE | OF RUIN'D WALLS THAT HAD SURVIV'D THE NAMES | OF THOSE WHO REAR'D THEM; BY HIS SLEEPING SIDE | STOOD CAMELS GRAING, AND SOME GOODLY STEEDS | WERE FASTEN'D NEAR A FOUNTAIN; AND A MAN | CLAD IN A FLOWING GARB DID WATCH THE WHILE, | WHILE MANY OF HIS TRIBE SLUMBER'D AROUND. | VIDE BYRON'S DREAM"; lettered, lower center: "BYRON'S DREAM. | To the Right honorable | David Earl of Leven & Melville. | ONE OF THE REPRESENTATIVE PEERS OF SCOTLAND. | This Plate is by permission most respectfully dedicated by the proprietor | Fras. Grahm. Moon. | LONDON PUBLISHED NOV. 1, 1833 BY F.G. MOON, THREADNEEDLE STREET, AND MOON, BOYS & GRAVES, PRINTSELLERS TO THE KING, 6, PALL MALL. | PARIS CHEZ RITTNER & GOUPEL, 12, BOULEVARD MONTMONTRE. | Gaywood & Longworth Printers."