The Puritan Way of Death by David E. Stannard;

Author:David E. Stannard;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: OUP Premium
Published: 1977-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Fig. 8. Top: A stone representative of the earliest New England type, the "E.C." stone ("E.C. is the first that we laid hear"), n.d.; Bottom: The Joseph Tapping stone, 1678; this page, The Doctor Palsgrave Wellington stone, 1715.

Fig. 8. Examples of developments in gravestone art in Massachusetts from the middle of the seventeenth century to the turn of the eighteenth century.

Fig. 9. Suggestions of religious imagery found their way onto the Phebe Tutell stone, 1713.

Fig. 9. Some specific themes that emerged on late seventeenth and early eighteenth century gravestones. Left, A demon or imp carrying a dart of death and an hourglass symbolic of the passage of time; a detail of the William Dickson stone, 1692. Right, An example of erotic imagery sometimes found in Puritan gravestones; a detail of the Rebeckah Whitmore stone, 1709.

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