Tag: The British Museum

• Staring Into The Face of Death

  

  It’s not on display any more, but one of my favourite objects in The British Museum is Napoleon’s death mask. Death masks were often used in an era before photography was widespread and captured likenesses which were used in sculpting busts of the decased post mortem. John Constable’s is on display at the Royal Academy…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  June 30, 2022

  France, History, Military, Museum, People, Tours

  19th century, Cemetery, Death Mask, France, history, London, Napoleon, Saint Helena, South Atlantic, The British Museum, tour, Wellington