During Jefferson’s time, life and death masks of famous individuals served both as collection pieces and aids for painting accurate portraits. In this month’s installment of Object Stories, Diane Ehrenpreis, Curator of Decorative Arts at Monticello, details her investigation into one such mask, the death mask of Oliver Cromwell.
Object Stories: The Death Mask of Oliver Cromwell
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