Details

Subject(s)

• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745—Death mask [Browse]
• Masks (Sculpture)—Specimens [Browse]
• Portraits, Irish—18th century [Browse]
• Authors, Irish—17th century—Portraits [Browse]
• Authors, Irish—18th century—Portraits [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Portraits [Browse]

Notes

• Unidentified Artist [artist]
• Medium: Casting plaster
• Provenance: Purchased by Hutton from "a dealer in plaster casts in London whom I never found at any hour of the day or evening in a condition of perfect sobriety. He could never explain how he became possessed of it and he did not even know whose mask it.

Source acquisition

Gift of Laurence Hutton.

References

• Hutton, Portraits, pp. 182-186
• Moore, Talks, pp. 199-200
• See Museum Objects Information File
• T. G. Wilson, The Death Masks of Dean Swift, Princeton University Library Chronicle, XVI (Spring, 1955), no. 3, pp. 107-110.

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