[A lock of Madame de Maintenon's hair, given to Horace Walpole] [realia].

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Title: [A lock of Madame de Maintenon's hair, given to Horace Walpole] [realia].
Alternative Title: Cheveux de Made. de Maintenon
Published / Created: [1719?]
Publication Place: France
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
A lock of Madame de Maintenon's hair, medium brown hair secured to paper backing with small paper label. Kept in the Glass Closet at Strawberry Hill with letters from Madame de Maintenon. Below label securing the lock, written in Horace Walpole's hand: "Cheveux de Made. de Maintenon". Further note also mounted on same paper also in Walpole's hand "Written by Madame de Maintenon & given to me at St. Cyr by one of the Nuns. Hor Walpole."
Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: Two original letters of Madame de Maintenon, also a lock of her hair.
Mentioned in letter from Walpole to Marie du Deffand 27 January 1775 (published in Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence) | Sabin receipt dated January 1929. | Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill [database] sh-000404
Provenance: Sold at the 1842 Strawberry Hill Sale, Day 6, Lot 157, bought by Money, £3.3.0. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Frank T. Sabin, London dealer, November 1928, £250 (with 7 other objects). Receipt dated January 19, 1929.
Extent: 1 item
Language: No linguistic content

Material: human hair, paper.
Subject (Name): Maintenon, Madame de, 1635-1719.
Subjects: Maintenon, Madame de, 1635-1719
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes

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