2-887-983 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Madame Tussaud, 1850. Portrait of French wax sculptor Marie Grosholtz, '...famous exhibitor of the greatest collection of wax-work ever known...she became a great adept in drawing and modelling, and she had numerous pupils among the French noblesse just previously to the revolution of 1789...her well-known career in this country is familiar to every one as an exhibitor of the waxen effigies of the heroes and heroines of all ages, whether of good or evil fame. Her reputation is unrivalled. Her emporium of characters, historic, literary, and criminal, in Baker-street, is of cosmopolite renown...to such perfection had this lady arrived in giving character and accuracy to her portraits, that, whilst very young, to her was confided the task of taking casts from the heads of Voltaire, Rousseau, Franklin, Mirabeau, and others'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.