Catching up with #31DaysofGraves - Day 4’s prompt was ‘Languages’. Here’s a stone from St Magnus with a Greek inscription meaning ‘Behold the end of life’ ☠️
Day 7 of #31daysofgraves - angel. This beautiful 18th-century slate headstone is in the churchyard at Denby, Derbyshire. It marks the grave of Jane Brentnall, aged 22. Several generations of the Brentnall family are buried alongside each other. (Inscription in alt text). #taphophile#cemetery
#31daysofgraves 7. Angel 👼 An angel — Sacramental de San Justo, Madrid 🇪🇸
"An angel sleeps here" says this epitaph.
I couldn’t say I don’t like cemetery angels because I do like them, but since you’ll be seeing plenty of stone angels in the challenge today 😊 I bring an angel that truly existed 💔
Eliza Louisa Maria Peers was the daughter of Hudson Bay Company fur trader and post master Augustus Richard Peers, whose untimely death at Fort McPherson in the Inuvik Region of the NWT is now the subject of an enduring ghost story. macleans.ca/news/canada/...
Composition, maybe…? 🤔 But Masaccio is one of the greats and this tomb is absolutely amazing 😮 One of the few cadaver tombs that exist in Latin countries. The stonemason who made this headstone I show should feel very proud reading your comment.
