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Heart-shaped Venetian locket of crystal mounted in silver, enclosing a lock of the hair of Robert Browning [realia].

BIB_ID
218881
Accession number
MA 1624
Published
Venice, 1888.
Credit line
Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1955.
Description
1 locket.
7 x 4 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on inner back cover: "Capelli di Roberto Browning, Ottobre 8, 1888."
Provenance
Presented by the poet by Mrs. Arthur Bronson, whose daughter, Countess Edith Rucellai, presented it to Mrs. William T. Hildrup, Jr., who presented it to the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the Academy presented it to the Morgan Library in 1955.
Medium
Crystal and silver.
Classification