An informal presentation of some floral shots I’ve taken. No commentary.
Tag Archives: Winchester VA
An outdoor portrait bust
I never expected to find a portrait bust displayed on the exterior of a monument! And it hasn’t been stolen!
Log-a-palooza!
An obsessive quest by Mr. Lloyd to get every conceivable grave furnishing in the rustic style has left us an astonishing, world-class plot in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond.
The corner problem
The handsome Rouss mausoleum in Mt. Hebron Cemetery in Winchester, VA, is a fine, attentively designed version of a Greek Doric temple (figures 1, 2). Built after Rouss died in 1902, it varies in a dozen ways from the most refined examples of the 5th century, BCE, yet it feels right in a dozen more. […]
Our buddy, gone before.
The Mt. Hebron Cemetery never disappoints. A couple of years ago my wife and I came across the tomb of Willie N. P. Lockhart (figure 1). It is touching and, for that age in that cemetery, modest. The anagraphic inscription: WILLIE N. P.Son ofJ & AMANDA L. LOCKHART.Died March 11th 1870Aged 12 Yrs & 9 […]
The Brevitt Glaize portrait in Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, VA
As I once walked the grounds of Mt. Hebron contemplating my mortality, I spotted a boy sitting on one of the monuments in the distance. Scenting a treasure and coming closer, I discovered the heilige Kuh! monument (figure 1) of David Brevitt Glaize, only child of David S. and Elizabeth B. Glaize, 1888-1905. He died […]
American Funerary Portraits in Glass and Stone
Among the Romans, it was very common, in some periods more than others, to have a portrait of yourself as a part of, or on the premises of, your tomb. It was an assertion of selfhood and existence and social significance before death; or it allowed a commemorator to assert these things for the dead. […]
