{"id":283,"date":"2015-02-24T05:51:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T05:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishhistory.net\/?p=283"},"modified":"2022-03-10T10:23:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T10:23:51","slug":"john-keats-images-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/keats\/john-keats-images-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"John Keats Images & Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The earliest surviving portrait of Keats, by Severn in 1816.<\/p><\/div>\n

Sketch of John Keats<\/a> <\/b>(charcoal)
\nby Joseph Severn, c. 1816
\nThis is the earliest surviving portrait of Keats.<\/span><\/p>\n

Portrait of John Keats<\/a><\/b> (oil on ivory)
\nby Joseph Severn, 1819
\nThis miniature was made and exhibited in 1819 .<\/span><\/p>\n

Lifemask of John Keats<\/a><\/b>
\nby Benjamin Robert Haydon<\/a>, 1816
\nKeats’s death mask can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sketch of John Keats<\/a>, study for Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem<\/i><\/b>
\nby Benjamin Robert Haydon, c. 1816<\/span><\/p>\n

Sketch of John Keats<\/a><\/b>
\nby Charles Brown, July 1819
\nThis is the portrait featured on the main page merged with Keats’s signature<\/a>.\u00a0 I have posted two larger versions of this sketch – tinted and grey-scale<\/a> – if anyone wants a new wallpaper for their computer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sketch of Keats<\/a><\/b>
\nby Charles Wass after William Hilton; c1841<\/span><\/p>\n

Portrait of Keats reading<\/a><\/b>
\nby Joseph Severn; at the NPG, London<\/span><\/p>\n

Portrait of Keats, listening to a nightingale on Hampstead Heath<\/a><\/b>
\nby Joseph Severn, c.1845
\nI rescanned this image July 2004.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The most famous portrait of Keats<\/a><\/b>
\nby William Hilton, after Joseph Severn; at the NPG, London
\nI rescanned this image June 2004.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Silhouette of Keats by Charles Brown<\/a><\/b>
\ngiven to Fanny Keats, 1819<\/span><\/p>\n

Sketch of Keats on his deathbed by Joseph Severn<\/a><\/b>
\nmade in 1821<\/span><\/p>\n

Silhouette of Keats by Marianne Hunt<\/a>
\n<\/b>This silhouette was made in 1820, while Keats recuperated at Leigh and Marianne Hunt’s home.<\/span><\/p>\n

Keats’s signature:\u00a0 ‘John Keats’<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Keats’s signature:\u00a0 ‘John Keats alias Junkets’
\n<\/a><\/b>This is Keats’s signature, including his nickname ‘Junkets’, from a letter to Leigh Hunt, 10 May 1817.\u00a0 It was Hunt who dubbed Keats ‘Junkets’ due to the poet’s Cockney(ish) pronunciation of his name.<\/span><\/p>\n

Keats’s death mask<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Drawing of the Sosibios Vase by John Keats<\/a><\/b>
\nwith his signature<\/span><\/p>\n

Letter from John Keats to Benjamin Robert Haydon<\/a>
\n<\/b>20 November 1816
\nThis brief note includes the ‘Great Spirits’ sonnet which Haydon later sent to Wordsworth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Letter from John Keats to his sister, Fanny Keats<\/a><\/b>
\n30 November 1818; letter written after the death of their brother Tom.
\nJohn sent this letter to prepare his sister for the later news of the death.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Letter from John Keats to his brother, Tom
\n<\/b>10-14 July 1818
\n<\/b>This letter was written during Keats’s walking-tour of Scotland with Charles Brown.<\/span><\/p>\n

Letter from John Keats to his fianc\u00e9e, Fanny Brawne<\/a>
\n<\/b>August 1820
\nThis is the last surviving letter from Keats to Fanny, written while he was staying at Leigh Hunt’s home.<\/span><\/p>\n

Original manuscript images of Keats’s works<\/a><\/b>
\nincludes ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, ‘I stood tip-toe upon a little hill’, ‘This pleasant tale is like a little copse’, ‘Hyperion’, ‘Bright star!’, ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer<\/i>‘, ‘Lamia’, and more<\/span><\/p>\n

The gravesite at the Protestant Cemetery<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

My portraits of Keats’s gravesite at the Protestant Cemetery, Rome<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Miniature portrait of Fanny Brawne<\/a><\/b>
\nFanny was the great love of Keats’s life.\u00a0 Please read more about their romance<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ambrotype of Fanny Brawne<\/a><\/b>
\ntaken in the 1850s<\/span><\/p>\n

Keats’s brothers, Tom<\/a> <\/b>and George<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Portrait of Keats’s sister Fanny Keats <\/b>in old age
\nby Juan Llanos<\/span><\/p>\n

Sketch of Leigh Hunt<\/a><\/b>
\nby Thomas Wageman
\nHunt was friends with Byron and Shelley<\/a> as well.\u00a0 He encouraged Keats’s decision to pursue a career in poetry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Joseph Severn<\/a><\/b>
\nself-portrait, c.1820
\nSevern painted and sketched Keats many times.\u00a0 He also accompanied the poet to Rome and nursed him through the last months of his life.\u00a0 Please read more about Keats’s illness and their time in Rome<\/a>.\u00a0 You can also read Severn’s letters from Rome<\/a>; they are the definitive account of Keats’s final months.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sketch of Benjamin Robert Haydon<\/a><\/b>
\nby Sir David Wilkie <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sketch of John Keats (charcoal) by Joseph Severn, c. 1816 This is the earliest surviving portrait of Keats. Portrait of John Keats (oil on ivory) by Joseph Severn, 1819 This miniature was made and exhibited in 1819 . Lifemask of John Keats by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1816 Keats’s death mask can be viewed here. Sketch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4952,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/4952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}