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This study was one of many that Elisabet Ney executed while completing Lady Macbeth, in which she captures the Shakespearean character washing the metaphorical blood of King Duncan from her hands.

Plaster cast skull with missing teeth. It appears to have been used as a study aid for the artist, but there is no information regarding its origins. It looks to have a European stylization, but it may also be from her stay here in the United…

Plaster maquette of Walter von Plattenberg holding a sword and wearing medieval attire.

Maquette of Stephen F. Austin figure.

Manufactured by Caspar Hennecke & Co of Milwaukee.

Ney created many plaster casts of the human body, sometimes using friends or family members as models. The over-sized nose featured here was said to be based on that of Michelangelo's David. This large model was reproduced to be used by artists and…

Maquette of full-scale version of Lady MacBeth. Standing 9 inches tall. A gift from Elisabet Ney to Mrs Dibrell. In later years Mrs Dibrell would donate the piece to the museum.

Arm Muscles, a manufactured plaster cast study showing muscles of the upper shoulder. The assumption held by the majority suggests this object was a study aid and not created by Ney herself.

This model features a pair of clasped hands, which are thought to have been those of Lorne and Cencie. Crescentia Simath, or Cencie, served as Elisabet Ney and Edmund Montgomery's long-time housekeeper. She moved several times with the couple, even…