Death mask of Walt Whitman from the Laurence Hutton Collection, the original as cast by Samuel Murray assisted by Thomas Eakins.
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 Walt Whitman
Artist
Date
1892
From
Laurence Hutton Collection,
