Record ID:
298663
Accession number:
MA 214.9
Published:
1820 Sept. [17].
Credit:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description:
1 hair clipping.
Notes:
Sheet with trace of a seal and labeled on verso with a line in shorthand and "18 Sept. 1820."
Watermark: Gater / 1815.
Part of a collection of three locks of John Keats's hair (MA 214.8-10). Locks of hair have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Summary:
A lock of John Keats's hair, tied up with black string and sewn to a piece of paper with a signed attestation penned by Richard Woodhouse reading: "A lock of the hair of John Keats, which I cut off at Gravesend on Sunday the [17th] Sept[embe]r 1820 on boa
Dimensions:
ca. 120 mm
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