Ruskin 's references to Byron's Life and Works are to Murray's seventeen-volume edition of 1832-33, illustrated with twenty six steel-engravings (including seventeen vignettes) after Turner, as well as with engravings after other artists. (See Piggott, Turner's Vignettes, pp.44-49, and Rawlinson 's catalogue entries 406-431.)
Writing generally of the Byron illustrations, Ruskin considered them to be 'much more laboured' than those in Rogers's Italy, and 'more or less artificial and unequal' ( Works, 13.445). (See Ruskin and Turner's illustrations to Rogers's Poems, and also Ruskin, Turner, and engraving.)