Plaster bust, death mask of John Howard in a box

An image of Plaster bust with death mask in a pine box, inscribed: 'This Case/with the Mask of the philanthropic/MR HOWARD/(who died 20th Jan: 1790)/was sent from Cherson in Russia/ to his Kinsman & Executor/Samuel Whitbread Esq/WHOSE SON/THE LATE SAMUEL WHITBREAD ESQR M.P. GAVE/ IT TO MR GEORGE GARRARD A.R.A. BY WHOM IT WAS/ PRESENTED TO THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, 1822.'

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Plaster bust with death mask in a pine box, inscribed: 'This Case/with the Mask of the philanthropic/MR HOWARD/(who died 20th Jan: 1790)/was sent from Cherson in Russia/ to his Kinsman & Executor/Samuel Whitbread Esq/WHOSE SON/THE LATE SAMUEL WHITBREAD ESQR M.P. GAVE/ IT TO MR GEORGE GARRARD A.R.A. BY WHOM IT WAS/ PRESENTED TO THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, 1822.'

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Accession Number: M.2-1822
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 947 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 244.21kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

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