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Making a death mask, ca. 1900.

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.

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Making a Death Mask

Artist

Date

1900


Underlying Rights

Public Domain Worldwide

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