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Masks (Sculpture)

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Life-mask of J. W von Goethe, and correspondence relating to Weisser the maker of the mask

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1322
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: This is one of only two examples of Goethe's life-mask. It had been sent to Thomas Carlyle by J. P. Eckermann and hung in Carlyle's home for many years. On Carlyle's death it was presented to David Masson, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh, and on his death was given by the Masson family to Professor Hume Brown who in turn bequeathed it to Edinburgh...
Dates: 1807-1920
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

List of phrenological heads available from Guy Aîné, Musée phrénologique, Paris, with an invoice

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2939
Scope and Contents This is a promotional broadside for the Paris Phrenological Museum, with the models supplied by naturalist and model maker Guy Aîné. There is also an invoice on a preprinted invoice form is for one phrenological head, dated 1843.Content warning: this collection contains racist and outdated language and concepts.The list of heads is divided in fur categories: - "Crânes de différentes races humaines"...
Dates: 1840-1843
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Mask of Dante Alighieri

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1723
Scope and Contents

Death mask of Italian poet Dante Alighieri. A death mask is a wax or a plaster cast made of a person's face after they have died.

Dates: unknown
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections