Only a Lock of Hair

Image credit: Manchester Art Gallery

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Bust-length depiction of a young woman, with her head turned three-quarter to the right. She holds a strand of hair with one hand which she cuts with a tiny pair of silver scissors, a distant and melancholy expression on her face. She wears a dress of striped blue and russet-coloured fabric with lace around the collar and at the cuffs, and a buttoned bodice. The background is dark and without detail. The frame is in a Pre-Raphaelite style, made of oak and softwood; probably original to the painting with oak reed moulding along the top edge and gilding.

Manchester Art Gallery

Manchester

Title

Only a Lock of Hair

Date

1857–1858

Medium

oil on panel

Measurements

H 35.3 x W 25 cm

Accession number

1917.268

Acquisition method

gift from Mr James Gresham, 1917

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Signed in monogram at left bottom corner: JM

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