It is believed to be the first time a museum object such as the
death mask has been used to create a facial reconstruction.
Last year, the
death mask of a notorious valet, Benjamin Courvoisier, who was hanged for murdering his employer, Lord William Russell in 1840, fetched PS20,000.
That
death mask was only his second
death mask after Ninoy Aquino's.
Robert Muscutt, great-grandson of Mary Ball with her
death mask at the police museum at Little park Street Police Station, Coventry
L'inconnue de la Seine (The Unknown Woman of the Seine), 2014, a white plaster copy of a
death mask made in an effort to identify the nineteenth-century woman, eyes closed, smile pacific, hung next to small, wall-mounted shelves holding an array of Polaroids.
Tutankhamun's
death mask, for instance, froze one vision of the deceased king; a sickly and fragile person was transformed into a virile and beautiful young man, the image fixed for posterity.
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There, he exhumes the remains of his recently buried toddler son (Margaret's brother Henry) and proceeds to craft a
death mask from the corpse that he later presents to his grieving wife.
Death mask of Oliver Cromwell - Discovery Museum, Newcastle
Young also called a bronze
death mask on McLaren's grave "hideous", adding: "I think of him lying there calling 'Get this thing off me'."
The skull had been taken from the Old Melbourne Goal in December 1978 where it had been on display next to the
death mask of the bushranger.