Hutton(and others)Collection of Life and Death Masks
Princeton University Library
Storage location as of 15 July 1993
As of 15 July 1993, the death masks are stored in five separate locations. What follows is a list of masks held at each location. The major subdivisions of the over-all list are the various locations.
I. 63 record center cartons stored on 1st floor in Rare Books:
These boxes are labeled one through sixty-three.
About 100 masks in these boxes.
II. 7 odd fellows stored in B-9-B-2:
4 w/ boxes
3 w/o boxes
III. Eight odd fellows in Tower w/o boxes
IV. About a dozen odd fellows in Theatre collection
V. About six in Scribner room
I. 63 record center cartons on 1st floor:
These boxes are arranged numerically 1-63, starting with box one in the overhead cabinets in Don Skemer's office, continuing through the upper cabinets behind the secretary's desk in the Kane room and ending in the upper cabinets to the right of the secretary's desk in the Boyd room.
** Names in parentheses indicate donor **
> Ex 67 Beethoven, Ludwig von (1770-1827)
Box 1
From the original life mask by
F. Klein 1812 (Hutton)
> Ex 67 Beethoven, Ludwig von (1770-1827)
Box 2
From the original life mask by
F. Klein 1812 (Hutton)
> Ex 4412 Beethoven life (?) mask (bronze)
Box 2
2 copies
(Mrs. Payson Merrill, 12/2/1921)
> Ex 68 Beethoven, Ludwig von
Box 3
(both) From the original death mask
2 copies (Hutton)
> Ex 68 Beethoven, Ludwig von
Box 34
From the original death mask
(copy #3)
> Ex 32 Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832) Author
Box 1
From original death mask (Hutton)
> Ex 93 Brougham, Henry Peter (Lord Brougham
Box 4
and Vaux), (1778-1868) Lord
Chancellor of England. Original life
mask from the collection of G. Combe
(Hutton)
> Ex 74 Bruce, Robert. Cast of skull (Hutton)
Box 5
> Ex 44 Brunel, Isambard Kingdom (1806-1859)
Box 4
English engineer. From the original
death mask (Hutton)
> Ex 83 Burke, Edmund (1729-1797) Statesman
Box 6
From the original death mask at the
Player's club, NY (Hutton)
> Ex 73 Burns, Robert (1759-1796) Poet
Box 7
Cast of skull (Hutton)
> Ex 823 Burr, Aaron (1756-1836) Revolutionary
Box 8
soldier &c. From the original death
mask (Hutton)
> Ex 77 Calhoun, John C. (1782-1850) Statesman
Box 9
From the original life mask by Clark
Mills 1844 (Hutton)
> Ex 49 Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Italian
Box 10
sculptor. From the original death mask
(Hutton)
> Ex ? **Carroll, Charles
Box 11
(only one found)
> Ex 39 Caunt, Ben (1815-1861) English pugilist.
Box 12
From the original death mask (Hutton)
> Ex 31 Cavour, Camillo Benso (1810-1861) Italian
Box 13
statesman. From the original death mask
(Hutton)
> Ex 85 Chalmers, Thomas (1780-1847) Theologian
Box 14
From the original death mask (Hutton)
> Ex 70 Charles XII (1682-1718) King of Sweden
Box 10
From the original death mask in Cambridge
University library. First copy (Hutton)
> Ex 70 Charles XII (1682-1718) King of Sweden
Box 12
From the original death mask in Cambridge
University library. Second copy
> Ex 86 Clay, Henry (1777-1852) Statesman
Box 15
From the original death mask by
Clark Mills (Hutton)
> Ex 65 Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658) "The Protector"
Box 6
From the original death mask in the
National Portrait Gallery, London
1st copy (Hutton)
> Ex 65 Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658) "The Protector"
Box 7
From the original death mask in the
National Portrait Gallery, London
2nd copy
> Ex 65 Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658) "The Protector"
Box 8
From the original death mask in the
National Portrait Gallery, London
3rd copy
> Ex 87 Curran, John P. (1750-1817) Irish judge
Box 16
From the original death mask (Hutton)
> Ex 90 Dante Alighieri (fragment) (Hutton)
Box 13
> Ex 90 Dante Alighieri (different fragment)
Box 15
> Ex 57 Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881) Statesman
Box 17
From the original death mask by Sir E.
Boehm (Hutton)
> Ex 61 Elizabeth, Queen of England (1533-1603)
Box 18
From effigy on tomb in Westminster Abbey
(Hutton)
> Ex 53 Florida Negro boy
Box 16
From life under the direction of T.
Hastings (Hutton)
> Ex 37 Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) Statesman
Box 19
From the original life mask by Houdon
1785 (Hutton)
> Ex 60 Frederick the Great (1712-1786) King of
Box 20
Prussia. From the original death mask in
the Hohenzollern Museum, Berlin (Hutton)
> Ex 63 Garrick, David (1717-1779) Actor
Box 21
Life mask (nose broken) (Hutton?)
COPY of one in Theatre coll.?
> Ex 620 Goethe. From the original life mask in the
Box 22
Goethe Museum, Weimar. Presented Feb. 20,
1933 (L.A. Ziegler)
> Ex Goethe (right hand)
Box 19
> Ex 54 Haydon, Benjamin R. (1786-1846) Artist
Box 21
From the original death mask (Hutton)
> Ex 51 Henry IV (1553-1610) King of France
Box 22
Death mask from the embalmed body.
Original in the Library of St. Genevieve,
Paris (Hutton)
> Ex 51 Henry IV (1553-1610) King of France
Box 23
Death mask from the embalmed body.
> Ex 140 Kaulback, Wilhelm von (1805-1874) German
Box 24
Death mask. Presented Feb. 10, 1902
(E. Hanfstaengel)
> Ex 4059 La Bourdonnais, Louis Charles M. de
Box 25
(1796-1840) Chess > Expert (Cook chess
collection)
> Ex 91 Lawrence, Sir Thomas (1769-1830) Artist
Box 26
From the original death mask by E.H.
Baily (Hutton)
> Ex 4140 Lee, Robert E. (1807-1870) Soldier
Box 27
Death mask by Clark Mills. Presented
Dec. 2, 1921 (Ralph Adams Cram)
> Ex 138 Leidy, Joseph (1823-1891) Geologist
Box 28
Death mask. Presented Jan. 1902
(Joseph Leidy, Jr.)
> Ex 43 Leopardi, Giacomo (1798-1837) Italian
Box 29
poet. From the original death mask
(Hutton)
> Ex 43 Leopardi, Giacomo (1798-1837) Italian
Box 30
poet. From the original death mask
> Ex 40 Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) President
Box 23
From the original life mask by L.W. Volk,
1860 in the National Museum (Hutton)
> Ex 50 Liszt, Franz (1881-1886) Pianist
Box 31
From the matrix of the original death
mask (Hutton)
> Ex 75 Louise (1776-1810) Queen of Prussia
Box 32
From the original death mask in the
Hihenzollern Museum in Berlin
> Ex 66 McCullough, John (1832-1885)
Box 33
Original death mask by H. H. Kitson
(Hutton)
> Ex 29 Marat, Jean Paul (1743-1793) Author
Box 34
From the original death mask in Musee
Carnavalet, Paris. First copy (Hutton)
> Ex 29 Marat, Jean Paul (1743-1793) Author
Box 55
From the original death mask in Musee
Carnavalet, Paris. Second copy
> Ex 41 Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847) Composer
Box 26
From the original death mask by Bendemann
and Hubner (Hutton)
> Ex 30 Mirabeau, Honore G. R. (1749-1791)
Box 35
(both) Author. From the original death mask in
Musee Carnavalet, Paris
2 copies (Hutton)
> Ex 64 Moore, Tom (1779-1852) Poet
Box 36
From the original death mask (Hutton)
> Ex 35 Napoleon I (1768-1821) Emperor
Box 29
Cast from the original death mask by
Autommarchi in the Hotel des Monnaies,
Paris (Hutton)
> Ex 597 Napoleon I. Death mask in bronze by Dr.
Box 37
Antommarchi (Mr. & Mrs. Henry Lane Eno)
> Ex 36 Napoleon III (1808-1873) Emperor
Box 38
From the original death mask by
Brucciani (Hutton)
> Ex 38 Newton, Isaac (1642-1727)
Box 39
From the original mask by Roubilliac
in the rooms of the Royal Society, London
(Hutton)
> Ex 94 O'Reilly, John Boyle (1844-1890) Author
Box 30
From the original death mask (Hutton)
> Ex 46 Owen, Richard (1804-1892) Naturalist
Box 40
Life mask, by A.L. Vago
> Ex 33 Paine, Thomas (1737-1809) Revolutionary
Box 41
author. from the original death mask by
J.W. Jarvis (Hutton)
> Ex 1340 Pennington, Samuel H., d.1900, Princeton
Box 42
class of 1825, Trustee 1856-1900. Death
mask presented Mar. 23, 1914 (Mrs. A. F.
Pennington)
> Ex 27 Pius IX, Pope (1846-1878) From the matrix
Box 31
of the original death mask (Hutton)
> Ex 28 Robespierre, Augustin B. J. de (1763-1794)
Box 43
(both) From the original death mask in the
Tussaud Gallery, London
2 copies (Hutton)
> Ex 88 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) poet
Box 44
From the original death mask by Brucciani
in possession of W. M. Rossetti (Hutton)
> Ex 92 Scott, Walter (1771-1832) Author
Box 32
From the original death mask by G.
Bullock at Abbotsford (Hutton)
> Ex 139 Senefelder, Alois (1771-1834) Inventor of
Box 45
lithography. Original death mask.
Presented Feb. 10, 1902 (E. Hanfstaengel)
> Ex 590 Sergeant, Elihu Spencer (son of Jonathan
Box 46
Dickinson Sergeant) (1787-1824)
Class of 1804. Death mask. Presented July
27, 1910 (Jonathan D. Sergeant)
> Ex 59 Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Poet
Box 51
Cast from effigy on tomb at
Stratford-on-Avon (Hutton) DAMAGED
> Ex 4482 Sinclair, W. J. Life mask. (?)
Box 36
> Ex 1431 Slocum, Henry W. (1826-1894) Soldier
Box 47
Death mask. Presented April 12, 1916
(H.W. Slocum)
> Ex 2240 Sullivan, John L. (1858-1918) Pugilist
Box 39
Life mask by R. Tait Mackenzie (1913)
Presented Mar. 27, 1919 (C.D. Hart, Class
of 1892)
> Ex 4289 Stuart, Mary (1542-1587) Queen of the
Box 48
Scots. Cast of effigy on tomb (Allan
Marquand)
> Ex 4792 Dean Swift (T.G. Wilson)
Box 63
> Ex 79 Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595) Author
Box 49
From the original death mask in the
Convent of San Onofrio, Rome (Hutton)
> Ex 34 Thackeray, Wm. M. (1811-1863) Author
Box 50
From the original death mask by
Brucciani (Hutton)
> Ex 52 Thaxter, Mrs. Celia (Leighton) (1835-1894)
Box 52
Poet. Death mask from the original matrix
by O. Branner (Hutton)
> Ex 26 Washington, George (1732-1799) President
Box 53
From the original Houdon statue
> Ex 78 Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) Statesman
Box 54
From the original life mask by C. Mills
1849 (Hutton)
> Ex 4829 Plaster cast of hand (right hand
Box 63
palm) of Woodrow Wilson by Theodore
Spicer Simpson (Carl Otto v.
Kienbusch)
> Ex 4372 Heinrich Heine (F. Dreyfus)
Box 41
> Ex 4257 [plaque]
Box 55
> Ex 2469 Dickens (plaque - 3"x4")
Box 55
> Ex 4375 unidentified hand
Box 49
> Ex 4401 [man w/ pointy beard - sculptor
Box 45
Dahlgren ?]
> Ex 4415 Maclain (?)
Box 57
> Ex 4898 Audobon
Box 56
Original in Museum of Comparative
Geology (?)
> Ex 4899 Agassiz
Box 52
---- Unmarked head
Box 58
> Ex 4783 Erdmann, John Frederic (1864-1954).
Box 59
Death mask by Ettore Salvatore. Plaster
Gift of Dr. Erdmann's daughter (Mrs.
John L. Kuser)
> Ex 4837 Plaster head, phrenological chart
Box 60
> Ex 4994 Compton. Bronze.
Box 61
> Ex 4834 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Box 56
----- Thackeray (damaged)
Box 62
II. 7 odd fellows in B-9-B-2
** name in parentheses indicates donor **
UNBOXED:
> Ex 47 Palmerston, Henry John Temple 3d
Viscount (1784-1865) Original death
mask by Jackson (Hutton)
> Ex 45 Sherman, Gen. Em. T. (1820-1891) Soldier
Original death mask under direction of
Augustus St. Gaudens (Hutton)
> Ex 4327 Tolstoi, Lev
BOXED:
> Ex 4875 Brisbane, Albert (1809-1890)
Death mask
> Ex 4876 Brisbane, Arthur (1864-1936)
Death mask, full head on pedestal
> Ex 4877 Brisbane, Arthur
Wax mask, three-quarters head
> Ex 4586 Wilson, Woodrow
Recumbent head, reconstructed from death
mask by Vladimir Fortunato (one of two
copies - copy #2 currently in Tower room)
(Dr. Harry M. Robinson)
III. 8 odd fellows in Tower:
Note: all of these with the > Exception of one** are in
need of boxes
** name in parentheses denotes donor **
> Ex 4363 George, Henry (1835-?)
Sculptor Richard George
> Ex 48 Grant, Ulysses S. (1882-1885) President
From the original death mask made under
the direction of Augustus St. Gaudens
(Hutton)
> Ex 4767 Napoleon I (1769-1821)
Death mask, plaster from a Louisiana
plantation (Mrs. Edward Larocque Tinker)
> Ex 88 **Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Death mask and cast of his hand by Brucciani,
1882 ** BOXED **
> Ex 589 Sergeant, Jonathan Dickinson (1746-1793)
Class of 1762. Death mask presented 27 July
1910 (Jonathan D. Sergeant)
> Ex 4753 Torrence, Ridgely, Class of 1897
2 copies
Death mask by Ettore Salvatore
(Torrence estate)
> Ex 4586 Woodrow Wilson
Recumbent head, reconstructed from death mask
by Vladimir Fortunato (one of two copies --
the other is currently in B-9-B-2)
IV. About 13 odd fellows in Theatre:
According to old information (inventory lists, shelf markers,
etc.), the following are presumed to be in Theatre, although no formal inventory has been made at this time.
Shelved in the caged area, far rear of caged stack.
** name in parenthese indicates donor **
> Ex 84 Barrett, Lawrence (1838-1891) Actor
Original death mask under direction of
Augustus St. Gaudens (Hutton)
> Ex 76 Boucicault, Dion (1822-1890) Actor
From the original death mask by
J.S. Hartley (Hutton)
> Ex 69 Edwards, Harry (1830-1891) Actor
From the original death mask by J.S.
Hartley (Hutton)
> Ex 63 Garrick, David (1717-1779) Actor
Life mask (Hutton)
> Ex 572 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832) Poet
Death mask. Presented 12 May, 1910
(J.R. Gifford)
> Ex 620 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
From the original life mask in the
Goethe museum, Weimar. Presented
20 February 1933 (L.A. Ziegler)
> Ex 573 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Cast of right hand. Presented
12 May 1910 (J.R. Gifford)
> Ex 81 Kean, Edmund (1787-1833) Actor
Death mask (Hutton)
> Ex 55 Malibran, Maria (1808-1836) French opera
singer. From the original death mask
by De Beriot (Hutton)
> Ex 4373 Reinhart, Max
Original death mask by Frederick Dreyfus.
Presented by Frederick Dreyfus
> Ex 42 Schiller, Johann C.F. von (1759-1805) Poet
From the original death mask by Klauer
(Hutton)
> Ex 59 Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Poet
Cast from effigy on tomb at Stratford-
on-Avon (Hutton)
> Ex 72 Sheridan, Richard B. (1751-1816) playwright
From the original death mask (Hutton)
V. About six masks in the Scribner Lounge
According to old shelf markers, the following masks
are presumed to reside in the Scribner Lounge, although no formal inventory has been made at this time.
** name in parentheses indicates donor **
> Ex 71 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) Poet
From the original death mask (Hutton)
> Ex 80 Keats, John (1796-1821) Poet
From the original life mask by Haydon
in 1818 in the National Portrait Gallery,
London (Hutton)
> Ex 58 Sterne, Lawrence (1713-1768) Author
Death mask (Hutton)
> Ex 56 Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) Author
From the original death mask (Hutton)
> Ex 95 Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) poet
Original death mask by Murray (Hutton)
> Ex 62 Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) Poet
From the original life mask by Haydon
1815 (Hutton)