Record ID:
104932
Accession number:
MA 214.10
Published:
1820 Sept.
Credit:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description:
1 hair clipping.
Notes:
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 accompanied by a sheet of paper (11.2 cm) with the following notes: "John Keats's hair cut off by Wm Haslam in Sept. 1820 just before Keats left England" and "This is my father's writing -- I found
Dimensions:
ca. 110 mm
Provenance:
Joseph Severn; by descent to Walter Severn.
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