Death mask of Isaac Newton, "one of the most valuable and important masks" in the Laurence Hutton Collection, one of just a few copies from the original made by Louis-François Roubiliac held at the Royal Society.
Featured on PDR in the essay Out From Behind This Mask
A Barthesian bristle and the curious power of Walt Whitman’s posthumous eyelids — D. Graham Burnett on meditations conjured by a visit to the death masks of the Laurence Hutton Collection.
Also appearing in the essay…
Death Mask of Isaac Newton
Artist
Date
1727
From
Laurence Hutton Collection,
