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Memorials and mourning

1842-1947

Items related to memorials and mourning, including locks of hair and hair jewellery from members of the Novello Cowden Clarke family and tributes to composers in their circle.

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Cabinet photograph after Joseph Severn's portrait of John Keats

Apr 1876

Cabinet photograph after Joseph Severn's portrait of John Keats on his deathbed in 1821. The reverse is inscribed in the hand of Mary Cowden Clarke with a note on the conditions under which the origin...

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Woven hair bracelet

c. 1850

Woven and plaited brown hair bracelet with a metal clasp.

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Photograph of memorial to Keats in Rome

c. 1960

Fragment of a photograph of a memorial to the poet John Keats from the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, Italy.

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Locks of hair

1842-1908

Locks of hair belonging to Giovanni Battista Gigliucci in a paper envelope inscribed in ink, with a pencil portrait in profile by either his wife Clara Anastasia Novello or sister-in-law Emma Aloysia ...

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Musical mementoes

c. 1850

Musical mementoes in ink, with musical notes and some with lyrics, by Clara Novello and her husband Giovanni Battista Novello, dedicated to the composers Bellini, Handel, Haydn, Meyerbeer, Rossini and...

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