Painted plaster death mask of James Bloomfield Rush, England, 1849-1900

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1849-1900

Painted plaster copy of death mask of James Bloomfield Rush (1800-1849), the notorious 'Killer in the Fog', probably part of a set of phrenological heads of criminals (a 'Murderers' Row'), unsigned, British, 1849-1900. This copy may have been made by the Tussaud waxworks who donated this object to the Wellcome collections in 1936.

Plaster death mask of Alexander Humboldt

Art

after 1859

Plaster death mask of Friedrich Heinrich Alexander Baron Humboldt (1769-1859)

Copy of the death mask of the Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini, Italy, 1910-1929

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1910-1929

Plaster copy of the death mask of the Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini (1777-1850), Italian, 1910-1929

Wax death mask of Benjamin Disraeli, England, 1881

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1881

Wax death mask of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, taken six hours after his death by Sir E. Boehm, England, 1881

Plaster mask of Saint Alfonso de Juquara Mato, Europe, 1860-1920

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1860-1920

Plaster mask of St. Alfonso de Juquara Mato, a cast possibly of his death mask(?), Italian(?), 1860-1920

Death mask of Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti

Electricity Supply

Death mask of Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti.

Plaster copy of death mask

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1920-1931

Plaster copy of death mask from unknown Egyptian mummy, copy made by Egyptian Museum at Cairo, Egyptian, 1920-1931

Copy of Justus von Liebig's Death Mask, 1873

Justus Liebig-Gesellschaft

1873 (original); 1990 (copy)

Plaster-of-paris copy of death mask of Justus von Liebig, unsigned, Germany, 1873. Copy supplied by Justus Liebig Gesellschaft, 1990.