plaster cast
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When Saint-Gaudens showed a plaster cast of it at the 1900 Paris Exposition, Auguste Rodin, then the most famous sculptor in Europe, stopped before it, removed his hat and stood in silent tribute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
A bad injury, and then photographs of him dancing in a nightclub with a plaster cast, saw the media turn on him.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023
In 1868 a plaster cast was made of the stone and deposited in the Smithsonian Institution.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2023
In 2011, the fragile appendages were hardened with an acetone-soluble glue so that they could be removed from the ground in a block of plaster cast.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2023
He saw, with a kind of bitter pleasure, that Jorge’s shoulder was encased in a plaster cast.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
