Showing posts with label carved portraits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label carved portraits. Show all posts
Thursday, August 2, 2012
The Sandstone Portrait of Martha Parratt
This stone, erected just a little over a decade after the Rural Cemetery was consecrated, is rather unusual in that it features a portrait in carved in sandstone. While this red-brown stone was popular for monuments during the Cemetery's early years (and there are still older examples in the Church Grounds), it was never as popular as white marble for likenesses and, in fact, is the only sandstone portrait here.
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