[Medallion purported to contain a fragment of Shelley's ashes, 1822]

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[Medallion purported to contain a fragment of Shelley's ashes, 1822]

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Purported to contain a cremated remain of Shelley that Leigh Hunt took back to England after Shelley's cremation on the Italian shore. Shelley's ashes were interned in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. Engraved inscription on reverse: P.B.S. Nat. IV Aug: 1792, Ob. VIII July, 1822.

1 medallion : 14 karat gold with crystal face & 8 quartz stones ; 2.5 cm. round

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...