Contributor: Lene Østermark-Johansen Location: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington. Gift of Molly F. Sheppard Description: An encounter in Rome in 1853 between the Brownings and the American sculptor Harriet Hosmer resulted in a life-long friendship and in this plaster cast of the poets’ hands, a year after Hosmer had become apprenticed to … Continue reading "Clasped Hands of Elizabeth and Robert Browning"