ECL.51:2-2025
Parts
Object number
ECL.51:2-2025
Object type
Identification
Title
Box for John Keats' death mask
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Wodden box
Description
Content (description)
Rectangular wodden box with wooden lid. Paper label of the National Portrait Gallery with register no. 4031 and inscription ' John Keats (death mask)' inside the lid.
Content (person)
Keats, John, 1795 - 1821 (Subject)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 188mm
width (actual size): 225mm
depth (actual size): 334mm
width (actual size): 225mm
depth (actual size): 334mm
Material
plaster
Production
Place
London
Date
1957-1986
Note
Produced for the National Portrait Gallery probably between 1957 and 1986
History and association
Object history note
The death mask was in the Meynell family by 1905 when it was drawn by Olivia Sowerby (1890-1975), Vivian Meynell's aunt. Vivian had it from his grandfather Wilfrid Meynell (1852-1948) who possibly purchased the mask from Charles Smith. From 1957 to 1986 the mask was on loan to the National Portrait Gallery in London. It was offered as lot 86, English Literature and History Sale, Sotheby's, 10 July 1986, lot 86 and acquired by Eton College Library.
Previous ownership
