Madame Tussauds, now a global wax museum brand, has its roots in the French Revolution, where Marie Tussaud crafted death masks of guillotined figures. She died on April 16, 1850 -- 135 years ago ...

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 ...

Wax figures had been displayed in cases near to the burial ... He was buried in the Abbey in 1377 and the face is a death mask. The effigy of Henry V’s queen is a full length effigy with a painted red ...

A death mask was traditionally made of monarchs and wealthy figures using wax or plaster moulded around the person's real ...

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 ...