Cameo of Lord Byron.
Engraved shell cameo "done from life by Italian craftsman in Pisa. Byron was so irritated by a receding hair line it represented that he gave the cameo to a friend who sold it to a goldsmith who in turn sold it to Sydney Thompson Dobell. It remained in the Dobell Family for three generations&qu...
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| Summary: | Engraved shell cameo "done from life by Italian craftsman in Pisa. Byron was so irritated by a receding hair line it represented that he gave the cameo to a friend who sold it to a goldsmith who in turn sold it to Sydney Thompson Dobell. It remained in the Dobell Family for three generations"--Note from donor. |
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| Item Description: | Cameo stuck to folded black hankerchief (with small white embrodiery), presumably after death. Accompanied by a modern postcard: Lord Byron, the original portrait by Thomas Phillips, 1813. Title devised by cataloger. |
| Physical Description: | 1 cameo : shell ; 42 mm, attached to cloth 44 x 44 cm + 1 postcard (color ; 15 x 10 cm) |