ECL.14:8-2025
Parts
Object number
ECL.14:8-2025
Object type
Identification
Title
Locks of hair of Leigh Hunt and possibly Mary Sommerville
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Content (description)
- Ring of Leigh Hunt's hair attached to embossed card with green thread; on the back, a sonnet written by Mary Cowden Clarke in Nice on 5 September 1859
- Envelope containing a loose lock of hair possibly Mary Sommerville's
- Leaf containing three sonnets on lock of hair of Leigh Hunt, Mary Sommerville and Florence Nightingale written by Mary Cowden Clarke between 1859 and 1866 and copied for Miss Mozley by Charles Cowden Clarke on 28th March 1867
- Envelope containing a loose lock of hair possibly Mary Sommerville's
- Leaf containing three sonnets on lock of hair of Leigh Hunt, Mary Sommerville and Florence Nightingale written by Mary Cowden Clarke between 1859 and 1866 and copied for Miss Mozley by Charles Cowden Clarke on 28th March 1867
Content (person)
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden, 1809 - 1898 (Author)
Hunt, Leigh, 1784 - 1859 (Former owner)
Sommerville, Mary, 1780 - 1872 (Former owner)
Nightingale, Florence, 1820 - 1910 (Subject)
Cowden Clarke, Charles, 1787 - 1877 (Copyist)
Hunt, Leigh, 1784 - 1859 (Former owner)
Sommerville, Mary, 1780 - 1872 (Former owner)
Nightingale, Florence, 1820 - 1910 (Subject)
Cowden Clarke, Charles, 1787 - 1877 (Copyist)
Dimensions
height (approx): 130mm
width (approx): 170mm
width (approx): 170mm
Dimension note
Dimensions of the bigger item
Material
organic
paper
metal
paper
metal
Materials & techniques note
Ring with metal pieces and hair attached to card, loose leaf and envelope
Production
Date
1859-1867
History and association
Previous ownership
