This is a plaster cast of Cromwell's wax death mask, made after the Lord Protector's death in 1658 (the Wax death mask can be seen in the British Museum). A controversial figure to many Cromwell ...

It is made of cartonnage, layers of linen and papyrus, stiffened with plaster ... death in 1968, when it and other Egyptian objects were left to The Royal Pump Room Museum in Harrogate. This mask ...