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Death masks are a plaster cast taken of a dead person's face. They're created following a persons death by taking an impression of their face directly from the corpse. They were used as portraits and mementos of the deceased.
1908 two men making a death mask.
Torso Murder Death Mask
Henry Irving's death mask
Hector Hyppolite
Oliver Cromwell death mask- Ashmolean Museum
William Blake
Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. Known for inventing dynamite.
John Dillinger
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