deborahlutz:William Morris reliquary(Victoria and Albert Museum)This is a locket with Morris’s
deborahlutz:William Morris reliquary(Victoria and Albert Museum)This is a locket with Morris’s hair, set into a wooden case. The front of the case is covered ingold plate, and the whole was designed by Robert Catterson-Smith and probably constructed by Charles James Fox. The verse inscribed on the back was written by Morris’s friend and publisher F. S. Ellis. I used this gorgeous piece for the cover of my recent book on Victorian era relics and ephemera: Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture. -- source link