Hovering heads

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Hovering heads

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1rjohara
Bewerkt: jan 7, 2007, 5:59 pm

A picture taken this afternoon in the Old South Street Cemetery, Fitchburg, Mass. It's a wonder that images of this kind, which are so striking, don't appear more places in the culture at large (literature, art, etc.).

The stone belongs to Thomas Cowden, Esq., d. 1792, and the carver I believe was John Dwight of Shirley.

2ham_shoes
okt 25, 2010, 4:18 pm

It seems like the only images like these occur in Massachusetts. I live in the midwest and am certain I've never seen any.

3ham_shoes
okt 25, 2010, 4:18 pm

By the way, how do you know who the carver is?

4Bookmarque
okt 25, 2010, 4:45 pm

Better make that a New England phenomena...or possibly the original colonies. I see quite a few.



although the skull motif is more fun -

5DaynaRT
okt 26, 2010, 1:22 pm

I've got a few photos of these in my genealogy files: