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The original drawing by Daniel Maclise (c. 1833) is in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)
A lock of Samuel Taylor-Coleridge's hair, with a letter from [The Hon. Geoffrey or Gilbert] Coleridge, addressed 17 Gledhow Gardens, S.W., July 18th 1923, to his brother, the Hon. Stephen Coleridge, explaining: "I have been turning out my archives and have come upon a strand of STC's hair ... I have already a strand of his hair appended in a locket to Maclise's Portrait ... I have a note in mother's handwriting that it came from Archdeacon Sandford;" together with a platinum print of Daniel Maclise's caricature of Coleridge, 9 x 4in., framed and glazed.
Provenance: By direct descent. (2)
A lock of Samuel Taylor-Coleridge's hair, with a letter from [The Hon. Geoffrey or Gilbert] Coleridge, addressed 17 Gledhow Gardens, S.W., July 18th 1923, to his brother, the Hon. Stephen Coleridge, explaining: "I have been turning out my archives and have come upon a strand of STC's hair ... I have already a strand of his hair appended in a locket to Maclise's Portrait ... I have a note in mother's handwriting that it came from Archdeacon Sandford;" together with a platinum print of Daniel Maclise's caricature of Coleridge, 9 x 4in., framed and glazed.
Provenance: By direct descent. (2)