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Death Mask

Death mask (2 copies?), reconstructed from the original by Vladimir Fortunato. See Museum Objects Information File. [Tower Room]

original death mask by Samuel Murray, assisted by Eakins. See Moore, Talks…, pp. 214-15, 223-4. [Scribner Room]

Death Mask

death mask, from the original by Olaf Brenner. See Moore, Talks…, pp. 209-10

Death mask, from the original in Convent of San Onofrio, Rome. See Hutton, Portraits…, pp. 9-10; Moore, Talks…, p. 186 [Box 49]

Death Mask

Death Mask

Death Mask

Death Mask

Death Mask

Death Mask

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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE “was born on October 20 . 1772, at Ottery St. Mary in Devonshire, and died on July 25 1834. As a poet and a brilliant critic he influenced Scott Shelley’ and Byron. He translated Schiller and made German philosophy known amongst his fellow-countrymen. The death mask came into the possession of the Princeton University library from the Hutton Collection, and Mr. Ernest Hartley Coleridge, a grandson of the poet, personally vouched to Laurence Hutton for its genuineness. (L. Hutton:’.4 Collection of Death Masks, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 1892, p. 783)”

Black & White Photos and quotations from: Benkard, Ernst, & Green, Margaret (1927). Undying Faces, A Collection of Death Masks. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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This mask is located in the The Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture, upstairs from The New-York Historical Society. 

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Located in The Market Church of Halle in Halle Germany.

 Web: http://www.halle.de/index.asp?MenuID=3723

Wikipedia entry for Martin Luther

Location: Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade.

Located at the J. Stalin’s State Museum in Gori, Russia

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Stalin’s Wikipedia entry

Location: British Museum London