The image of an angel watching over a ship isn't exactly subtle, but it is poignant in a graveyard crowded with cenotaphs dedicated to men who died at sea.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Mariners' Angel
The image of an angel watching over a ship isn't exactly subtle, but it is poignant in a graveyard crowded with cenotaphs dedicated to men who died at sea.
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That stone is also illustrated in Blachowicz's From Slate to Marble, where he attributes it to the John Tribble workshop, with some discussion of who in the shop did the work. (I know nothing about Plymouth and so can only repeat what he says.)
"The large slate gravestone for Capt. Chandler Holmes, Jr. (1831) (Fig. 8.34) has in its tympanum a finely worked vessel with what appear to be broken masts and torn sails in a choppy sea and with a trumpeting angel calling the young sea captain, twenty-seven years of age, to the afterlife. (This upper half of this stone was broken off--sparing the tympanum, luckily--sometime in 1998, but it has since been repaired.) There are also two five-pointed stars flanking the tympanum, and the inscription is written in the cursive script we have seen on the laced-willow stones."
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