A lock of hair cut by Joseph Severn [realia].

Record ID: 
298641
Accession number: 
MA 214.8
Author: 
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Published: 
1821.
Credit: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description: 
1 hair clipping.
Notes: 

This lock of hair was cut by Joseph Severn in January or February of 1821, as Keats lay on his deathbed in Rome.
This lock of hair was enclosed in a 21 January 1825 letter (MA 214.6) from Joseph Severn to Keats's publisher John Taylor.
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 in a black ribbon.

Dimensions: 
ca. 120 mm
Classification: