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 was."

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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