Thomas William Parsons death mask [art original], 1892.

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Thomas William Parsons death mask [art original], 1892.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79358682

Depicts American poet and translator Thomas W. Parsons' face, cast after death. Parsons died in 1892.

1 cast (sculpture) : plaster ; 29 x 19 x 18 cm.

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Parsons, Thomas William, 1819-1892

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Thomas William Parsons (August 18, 1819, Boston – September 3, 1892, Scituate, Massachusetts) was an American dentist and poet. Parsons was educated at the Boston Latin School, and visited Italy to study Italian literature in 1836-7. His translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, which eventually comprised all the Inferno, two-thirds of the Purgatorio and fragments of the Paradiso, began to appear in 1843. After practicing dentistry in Boston, he lived for several years in England before returning...

Monti, Luigi Maria, 1825-1900

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