Object details
Object number
ARC.008148
Creator(s)
John Keats
(London, 1795 - 1821, Rome)
Title
Robin Hood
Date
about 1818 - 1820
Medium
Ink on paper
Language
English
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed in pencil (verso, upper left corner): EE17
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)
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.
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).
Gallery
Long Gallery
Case
Earlier Authors Case
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