ECL.14:7-2025
Parts
Object number
ECL.14:7-2025
Object type
Identification
Title
Locks of hair of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Content (description)
Mounted locks of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife Mary Shelley with manuscript note 'given to me by Mr Leigh Hunt'; on another hand '(this was written by my dear mother, Mary Sabilla Novello) M.C.C.'.
Content (person)
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden, 1809 - 1898 (Collector)
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797 - 1851 (Former owner)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792 - 1822 (Former owner)
Novello, Mary Sabilla, 1789 - 1854 (Former owner)
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797 - 1851 (Former owner)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792 - 1822 (Former owner)
Novello, Mary Sabilla, 1789 - 1854 (Former owner)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 270mm
width (actual size): 168mm
width (actual size): 168mm
Dimension note
Size of the item mounted
Material
organic
paper
paper
Materials & techniques note
Lock of hair laid on paper mounted in cardboard frame
Production
Date
1820s-1850s
History and association
Previous ownership
