Collection Highlights
The Truant Gamblers (Undutiful Boys)
1835
1858.23
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
John James Audubon (1785-1851)
Title
John James Audubon (1785-1851)
Date
Pre 1839
Medium
Plaster, shellac
Dimensions
Overall: 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 x 3 1/2 in. ( 21.6 x 14.9 x 8.9 cm )
Description
Life mask.
Credit Line
Gift of the Thomas Paine National Historical Association
Object Number
1926.56b
Gallery Label
This mask is related to a life mask (perhaps a cast of it?) made in Edinburgh on 14 January 1827 by Mr. O'Neill in conjunction with George Combe, teh phrenologist; see Chalmers,"Audubon in Edinburgh. . . " (2003), pp. 50-53, with Audubon's discussion of it quoted from Maria Audbuon and Coues, eds., "Audubon and His Journals" (1897), vol. 1, p. 205. RJMO 7/29/10
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
