Object details
Accession number
ARC.008148
Primary Creator
John Keats
(London, 1795 - 1821, Rome)
Full title
Robin Hood
Creation Date
about 1818 - 1820
Object Case
Earlier Authors Case
Language
English
Provenance
Collection of English essayist, critic, journalist, and poet Leigh Hunt, (1784-1859).By inheritance to editor Thorton Hunt (1810-1873).Gift to Samuel Ralph Townshend Mayer (1841-1880), Spring 1873. Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from bookseller Bernard Quaritch (1819-1899), London for £30 on 22 July 1886. (with Percy Shelley's poem "To the Nile," U27e59)
Marks
Inscribed in pencil (verso, upper left corner): EE17
Display Media
Ink on paper
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Long Gallery
Bibliography
Jack Stilinger. Complete Poems : John Keats. (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982)
Michael O'Neill and Daniel Reiman. Fair Copy Manuscripts of Shelley's Poems in European and American Libraries (New York: Garland, 1997).
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