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| May 27, 2010 | Napoleon's hair to be auctioned by Kiwi family | |
Wellington: Valuable relics of Napoleon Bonaparte, including a lock of his hair - believed to be taken from his deathbed - will be sold off at a New Zealand 'roadshow'. Napoleonic scholars
are busy analysing the find, which also includes a lithograph taken from a drawing
of the former French emperor made the morning after his death in 1821, at a conference
in Malta in July. "It's a fascinating collection and contains a lot of stuff that
has great historical importance," Stuff.co.nz quoted International Napoleonic
Society president and prolific author David Markham as telling the Herald from
Washington State yesterday. The items had been brought to New Zealand by Captain
Ibbetson's first son, Frederick, in 1864 and passed through three subsequent generations
until the last member of its male line died several years ago. The collection
includes about 25 watercolour or pen depictions of Napoleon and key structures
on St Helena , including the buildings where he was kept under virtual house arrest.
Probably the most sought after possession, however, is a diary containing close-hand
observations of Napoleon by Captain Ibbetson during a six-week voyage to St Helena
in August on HMS Northumberland, in 1815. Markham has received several images
of items from the collection, and has offered to write an essay for a catalogue
being prepared for its auction on June 29. |
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