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Portraits in Plaster, from the Collection of Laurence Hutton

Chapter 5: INDEX
By Laurence Hutton
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The author presents a curated collection of plaster life‑ and death‑masks of famous cultural, political, and scientific figures, describing how a chance find prompted decades of acquisition and verification. Entries combine physical description of each cast, notes on provenance and identification, and brief biographical or critical commentary, while the introduction explains molding techniques, restoration and customs challenges, and the philosophical claim that casts preserve unembellished facial truth. The volume is illustrated and arranged as a catalog of portraits that invites reflection on portraiture, authenticity, and the relationship between physiognomy and character.

INDEX

  • Agassiz, Louis, 149.
  • Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, quoted, 37.
  • Atterbury, Bishop Francis, quoted, 81.
  • Barrett, Lawrence, 28, 33, 34-37.
  • Barrett, Lawrence, quoted, 41.
  • “Barry Cornwall,” quoted, 27.
  • Beaconsfield, Earl of, 177-182.
  • Beethoven, Ludwig von, 61-68.
  • Bentham, Jeremy, 117-122.
  • Blacklock, Archibald, quoted, 191.
  • Bonaparte, Napoleon, x., 4, 197-201.
  • Booth, Edwin, x., 28, 38, 41, 42.
  • Boucicault, Dion, 28, 31-33.
  • Brontë, Charlotte, quoted, 86.
  • Brougham, Lord, 261-265.
  • Brown, John, M.D., quoted, 92.
  • Browning, Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett, quoted, 146, 205.
  • Bruce, King Robert, 193.
  • Burke, Edmund, 168-171.
  • Burns, Robert, 191-192.
  • Burr, Aaron, xi., 246-249.
  • Burr, Aaron, quoted, 117.
  • Caine, Hall, quoted, 122.
  • Calhoun, John C., 254.
  • Canova, Antonio, 138, 150, 157, 158.
  • Carlyle, Thomas, quoted, 58, 99, 100, 211, 212, 222.
  • Caunt, Ben, x., 85, 86.
  • Cavour, Count, 125, 126.
  • Chadwick, John A., quoted, 34.
  • Chalmers, Thomas, x., 92-96.
  • Chantrey, Sir Francis, quoted, 13.
  • Charles XII., xiii., 218-221.
  • Cheetham, James, quoted, 242.
  • Cicognara, Count, quoted, 157.
  • Clark, Lewis Gaylord, quoted, 254.
  • Clarke, Asia Booth, quoted, 38-41.
  • Clarke, Charles Cowden, quoted, 96, 106, 109.
  • Clay, Henry, x., 253, 254.
  • Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, quoted, 100.
  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, xii., 96-100.
  • Coleridge, Sara, quoted, 99.
  • Collins, Wilkie, quoted, 145.
  • Combe, George, quoted, 121.
  • Cottinet, Edmund, quoted, 53-54.
  • Croker, John Wilson, quoted, 171-172.
  • Cromwell, Oliver, x., 4, 205-213.
  • Cumberland, Richard, quoted, 19.
  • Cunningham, Peter, quoted, 145.
  • Curran, John Philpot, 171.
  • Curtis, George William, quoted, 41, 150.
  • Dante, x., 5-9.
  • d’Arblay, Madame, quoted, 46.
  • Davies, Thomas, quoted, 46.
  • Davis, Mrs. Jefferson, quoted, 150.
  • Dickens, Charles, quoted, 91.
  • Diodorus Siculus, quoted, 3.
  • Disraeli, Benjamin, 177-182.
  • Edwards, Henry, 28, 33, 37, 38.
  • Evans, Mary Ann, quoted, 125.
  • Evelyn, John, quoted, 209.
  • Faucit, Helen, quoted, 27-28.
  • Fitzgerald, Percy, quoted, 46.
  • Fowler, O. F., quoted, 221, 222, 246, 253, 254.
  • Francis, John W., M.D., quoted, 245.
  • Franklin, Benjamin, 241.
  • Fraser, Sir William, quoted, 177.
  • Frederick the Great, xi., 4, 50, 221, 222.
  • Frith, W. P., quoted, 142, 181, 182.
  • Gallenza, A., quoted, 131.
  • Garrick, David, 19-23.
  • “George Eliot,” quoted, 125.
  • George IV., quoted, 141.
  • Gilder, R. W., quoted, 106.
  • Grant, U. S., x., 4, 222, 225-230.
  • Greville, Charles C. F., quoted, 100, 103.
  • Griffin, Gerald, quoted, 164.
  • Hale, Philip, quoted, 62, 67.
  • Hall, S. C., quoted, 100.
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel, quoted, 146.
  • Hay, John, quoted, 250, 253.
  • Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 113-117, 138.
  • Haydon, Benjamin Robert, quoted, 103, 104.
  • Hazlitt, William, quoted, 103.
  • Healey, G. P. A., quoted, 253.
  • Henry IV., 213-218.
  • Howells, William D., quoted, 132.
  • Hunt, Leigh, quoted, 46, 49, 103, 109, 164, 241, 242.
  • Irving, Henry, quoted, 41.
  • Irving, Peter, quoted, 49.
  • Jefferson, Thomas, 237, 238.
  • Jerrold, Douglas, quoted, 91.
  • Johnson, Samuel, 110-113.
  • Kean, Edmund, 23-28.
  • Kearsley, George, quoted, 110, 113.
  • Keats, John, x., xv., 105-110.
  • Kemble, Fanny, quoted, 27.
  • Kinglake, Alexander W., quoted, 202.
  • Kirkup, Seymour, quoted, 5.
  • Lampadius, W. A., quoted, 71.
  • Lavater, Johann Kasper, quoted, xiv., 221.
  • Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 138-142.
  • Leopardi, Giacomo, x., 132.
  • Leslie, Charles Robert, quoted, 24.
  • Lincoln, Abraham, 249-253.
  • Lockhart, John Gibson, quoted, 187.
  • Longfellow, Henry W., quoted, 149.
  • Lorne, Marquis of, quoted, 172.
  • Louise of Prussia, xi., 50-53.
  • Macaulay, Thomas B., quoted, 114, 117.
  • Madden, R. R., quoted, 141, 142, 202.
  • Malibran, Maria F., 53, 54.
  • Manso, Giovanni Battista, quoted, 10.
  • Marat, Jean Paul, 71, 72, 75, 76.
  • Martin, Lady, quoted, 27, 28.
  • McCullough, John, 28, 33.
  • Mendelssohn, Felix, 68-71.
  • Mill, John Stuart, quoted, 117.
  • Mills, Clark, quoted, 237-238.
  • Mirabeau, G. R., 71, 72, 76.
  • Moore, Thomas, 164-168.
  • Motley, John Lothrop, quoted, 86, 91, 265.
  • Napoleon I., x., 4, 197-201.
  • Napoleon III., xv., 201-205.
  • Newton, Sir Isaac, x., 76, 81-82.
  • Newton, Sir Isaac, quoted, 5-6.
  • Niebuhr, Berthold George, quoted, 132.
  • Noble, Mark, quoted, 213.
  • Opie, John, quoted, 141.
  • O’Reilly, John Boyle, 132, 137, 138.
  • Osgood, Samuel, D.D., quoted, 146.
  • Paine, Thomas, x., 241, 246.
  • Palleske, E., quoted, 58.
  • Palmerston, Lord, 172, 177.
  • Parton, James, quoted, 117.
  • Payne, John Howard, quoted, 49.
  • Percy, Thomas, D.D., quoted, 113.
  • Pettigrew, Thomas J., quoted, 3.
  • Phillips, John, quoted, 181, 182.
  • Pius IX., x., 131.
  • Poore, Ben Perley, quoted, 237, 238.
  • Porter, Horace, quoted, 229, 230, 233.
  • Powers, Hiram, 138, 146.
  • Procter, B. W., quoted, 27.
  • Procter, Mrs. B. W., quoted, 109.
  • Purrington, William A., quoted, 222, 225, 226, 229.
  • Redding, Cyrus, quoted, 209, 210.
  • Reid, T. Wemyss, quoted, 181.
  • Rickman, Clio, quoted, 242.
  • Robespierre, Maximilian, 76, 81.
  • Robinson, Henry Crabb, quoted, 27, 132.
  • Roche, James Jeffrey, quoted, 137.
  • Rossetti, Dante G., 122-125.
  • Rossetti, William M., quoted, 122.
  • Ruskin, John, quoted, 157, 158.
  • Russell, Lord John, quoted, 167, 168.
  • Schiller, Frederick, xi., 54, 57, 58.
  • Schliemann, Heinrich, quoted, 2.
  • Scott, Sir Walter, 187-191.
  • Scott, Sir Walter, quoted, 182, 197, 198.
  • Seward, William H., quoted, 150.
  • Shakspere, 10-19.
  • Sharp, William, quoted, 109, 110.
  • Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, xii., 158, 163, 164.
  • Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, quoted, 19, 168.
  • Sherman, William T., 4, 233.
  • Sherwood, Mrs. M. E. W., quoted, 42.
  • Siddons, Sarah, 42, 45-50.
  • Smith, Southwood, quoted, 118, 121.
  • Smith, Sydney, quoted, 261.
  • Speed, John Gilmer, quoted, 105.
  • Spencer, O. M., quoted, 125, 126.
  • Story, W. W., quoted, xiv., 234, 237.
  • Sumner, Charles, 150.
  • Swift, Jonathan, xiii., 182-186.
  • Tasso, Torquato, x., 9-10.
  • Taylor, Bayard, quoted, 68, 71.
  • Taylor, Sir Henry, quoted, 104.
  • Thackeray, William M., 86, 91, 92, 95.
  • Ticknor, George, quoted, 49.
  • Turner, J. M. W., 142-145.
  • Volk, Leonard W., quoted, 237, 238.
  • Warville, Brissot de, quoted, 117.
  • Washington, xiv., 4, 233-237, 241, 249.
  • Webster, Daniel, 253, 254.
  • Weld, Charles Richard, quoted, 82, 85.
  • Whipple, E. P., quoted, 149.
  • Whittier, John G., quoted, 250.
  • Wikoff, Henry, quoted, 202, 205.
  • Wilde, Sir William, quoted, 182, 186.
  • Willis, Nathaniel P., quoted, 167, 177, 178, 181.
  • Winter, William, quoted, 34, 37, 38.
  • Wordsworth, William, 100-105.
  • Young, Julian Charles, quoted, 95, 96.

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