John Keats's death-mask

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TITLE

John Keats's death-mask

SUMMARY

Casts were made of Keats’s face, foot and hand on the morning after his death. Severn used the mask for his posthumous portrait of Keats reading at Wentworth Place. It was eventually sent to Keats’s publisher, John Taylor, in London. This is one of a series of white plaster casts made by Charles Smith between 1886 and 1891.

NAME

Smith, Charles (artist)

DATE

1886-1891

ITEM

1 cast

MEDIUM

realia

MATERIALS

plaster.

GENRE

casts (sculpture) plaster
plasterwork (visual works)
death-masks

PERSONAL NAME SUBJECT

Keats, John, 1795-1821

ACQUISITION NOTE

Gift of A.C. Bradley, ca. 1907.

LOCATION

KSH

REL-002


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