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Thomas Law Hair Relic
Original Author: Unknown
Created: ca. 1790–1800
Medium: Burnished copper alloy case holding a woven plat of hair

Thomas Law Hair Relic

A plat of hair from Thomas Law is encased in a burnished copper alloy bezel case. This hair relic is on the reverse side of a miniature portrait of Law made circa 1790 to 1800. Law, an Englishman, married Eliza Parke Custis, a stepgranddaughter of George Washington.