Cemetery Gallery

A red clay Negro cemetery, Bethel Hill High School, Person County, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

A red clay Negro cemetery. No attempts to lay out crops. The graves in rows with narrow spaces between. This cemetery was a solid space of red clay washed by the rains. Even the gravestones are colored red by the red clay beaten against them by rain. On such markers as are cut there was misspelling as "bon" for "born, " "die such and such a time twenty one ears." Bethel Hill High School, Person County, North Carolina

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Home from Sea, 1856-1863. Creator: Arthur Hughes

Home from Sea, 1856-1863. This work was originally exhibited as The Mother's Grave': a boy in sailor's uniform weeps over the grave of his mother who has died while he was at sea. Details such as spider's webs, dew drops, dog roses and dandelion seeds emphasise the theme of life's transience. The mother's death is also echoed in the lamb separated from its mother by the barrier of the tombstone. The artist's wife, Tryphena, sat for the figure of the boy's sister; the scene is the churchyard at Chingford in Essex. Painting in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. From "Pre-Raphaelite Painters" by Robin Ironside, with a descriptive catalogue by John Gere. [The Phaidon Press Ltd, London, 1948]

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Picquet House, Cathcart's Hill, from General Bosquet's Quarters, 1855

Picquet House, Cathcart's Hill, from General Bosquet's Quarters, 1855. A work made of salted paper print, from the album "photographic pictures of the seat of war in the crimea" (1856)

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