The practical book of early American arts and crafts . EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SCRATCH CARVED TOMBSTONE, ST. THOMASS CHtJECHYARD, WHITEMARSH VALLEY, PENNSYLVANIA ,11 , Nr>v .in>( Uv Olio >nn >/^ EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CARVED TOMBSTONE, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND Courtesy of Henry Oothout Milliken, WOOD AND STONE CARVING 319 Tombstone Carving. If the early American stone-carver was limited in his architectural scope, he madeup for his lack of opportunity in that field when hewas turned loose on tombstones and mural old churchyard and burial ground in the countryis full o
The practical book of early American arts and crafts . EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SCRATCH CARVED TOMBSTONE, ST. THOMASS CHtJECHYARD, WHITEMARSH VALLEY, PENNSYLVANIA ,11 , Nr>v .in>( Uv Olio >nn >/^ EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CARVED TOMBSTONE, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND Courtesy of Henry Oothout Milliken, WOOD AND STONE CARVING 319 Tombstone Carving. If the early American stone-carver was limited in his architectural scope, he madeup for his lack of opportunity in that field when hewas turned loose on tombstones and mural old churchyard and burial ground in the countryis full of the evidences of his prowess with the malletand chisel. The choice of subjects, to be sure, was some-what circumscribed—cherubs, deaths heads, skulls andcrossbones, and hour-glasses, with and without wings,seem to have been the universal favourites—^but hemanaged to inject not a little variety into his inter-pretations of these lugubrious emblems of were dolorous cherubs and merry cherubs; leancherubs and fat, mimapy-cheeked celestial youngstersjoyously fluttering their robust little wings; cherubswith curly hair and cherubs with head dresses, and, nowand again, cherubs with their ambrosial locks doneup in puffs that would have put the most proficientParisian friseur to unendin
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