This is a plaster cast of Cromwell's wax death mask, made after the Lord Protector's death in 1658 (the Wax death mask can be seen in the British Museum). A controversial figure to many Cromwell ...

Death masks — made out of a wax or plaster cast ... Werner Forman / Universal Images Group via Getty Images 23.Oliver Cromwell One of the most important figures in British history, Cromwell ...

Six plaster casts were made from Thomas Simon's original wax death mask, and copies continued to be made for centuries. Most of the later ones were "Photoshopped" the old-fashioned way ...

The Cromwell Museum The display will include one of Oliver Cromwell's funeral masks, a likeness cast after his death Cromwell grew up in Huntingdon and was an obscure landowner until he rose to ...

The new exhibit looks at this fascinating story and includes several rarely seen artefacts on display, including a rare banner displayed at Cromwell’s funeral, one of his death masks ...

England's legendary playwright and poet died on April 23, 1616, at the age of 52. In 1849, Dr. Ludwig Becker found his death ...

Death masks — made out of a wax or plaster cast put on a dead person's face — have long been part of human history. Below, morgue workers make a death mask of notorious Depression-era gangster John ...