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9. Hand 🖐️
Raspail tomb, by Antoine Etex (1854) — Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris 🇫🇷

‘Within the Realm of a Dying Sun’ by Dead Can Dance is playing. On the cover, there’s a mysterious figure draped in a shroud. She clasps her hand around the prison bars in a silent act of devotion.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 9 - Hand: The memorial to Maria Clementina Sobieski (1702-1735) at St Peter's Basilica features the personification of Charity holding out a flaming heart in her hand.

#31DaysofGraves - Day 8 - Glass

Common Burying Ground, Newport, Rhode Island, USA

A scythe and hourglass motif on three stones.

#31DaysofGraves Day 8 Glass.

A domestic take on the memorial window. By E Liddall Armitage, for James Powell & Sons, in the tucked-away church of St Mary's, Burghfield.

The border of birds, the doubtless much loved pets, & the little flock of sheep - all lift the spirits. @iangrebe.bsky.social

#31DaysOfGraves Day8: Glass. #StainedGlass. Window by John K Clark in the Trades’ Kirk, Dundee, showing The Howff.

Oh wow!

No advice but hanging out in the comments because mine’s in two months! Good luck!

Oh I missed that! I’m glad it’s working again!

#31DaysOfGraves Day 8 - Glass: Sun coming through the stained glass window of the Cory-Wright mausoleum at Highgate Cemetery #London

It was amazing. I would've spent a lot longer there but it was reaching 40° and the mosquitos were after me!

! What’s the date of this one?

Day 7 of #31daysofgraves - angel. This beautiful 18th-century slate headstone is in the churchyard at Denby, Derbyshire. It marks the grave of Jane Brentnall, aged 22. Several generations of the Brentnall family are buried alongside each other. (Inscription in alt text). #taphophile #cemetery

#31daysofgraves Day 7 angel. In this case a lost angel in Dunblane Cathedral graveyard, sadly no longer visible, but we do have an image of it from about 100yrs ago of how lovely it looked. Image from Dunblane Museum.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 7 - Angel: An angel reaches down for Adriano Schiavetti (1914-1923) at Verano Monumental Cemetery/Cimitero del Verano, Rome/Roma.

Tuve que buscar algunas palabras pero este es excelente! Un estudio muy interesante 🏳️‍🌈

Christian burials traditionally face east so that they face Christ during the Second Coming. The clergy face west so they are ready to lead their people. With the advent of C19th cemeteries many graves were lined to face pathways instead and it became more dependent on individual cemetery landscapes

#31DaysOfGraves Day 6 - Gender

The headstone of Lilian Violet Cooper and Mary Josephine Bedford - Life-long friends, buried together in Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane - Portion 8, Section 69, Grave 13&14.

Dig deeper: www.fotc.au/research/lil...

That's interesting, I've never noticed that here (Liverpool). It may be that it's only because I've looked at C19th and it becomes more common later, or I've overlooked it!

I've never seen a male 'relict' or even a man referred to as a widower. If a relationship is mentioned it's usually son but sometimes husband (even if the woman died first). Here's my stats from a sample of c.4,000 graves in Liverpool! (Of course limited by assuming binary gender from first name).

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6. Gender ⚧️
Nastasia Rampova — Cementerio del Cabanyal (València) 🇪🇸

Valencian drag artist, she was involved in countless artistic and political events from Kabaret Ploma 2, la Pinteta Rebel or Orgásmo Atómico, alongside other members of the LGTBIQA+ movement in the Spanish Levant.

William Button's describes him as "a husband dear, and father kind". Although these are not widespread in the early C19th many clearly differ from the contemporary middle-class gender expectations, and increase rapidly at the end of the century.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 6 - Gender: My PhD research found that women were (perhaps surprisingly?) well represented in the cemetery. Widows were regularly purchasing grave plots well before the Women's Property Acts. James Wall's headstone states it was erected by "his relict".

And a bonus goose for Montrose Basin's #GooseFest! Sorry, no pink feet though! @scotwildlife.bsky.social
At the United Jewish Cemetery, Cincinnati.

#31DaysofGraves - Day 4 - Languages

Sunnyside Cemetery, Coupeville, Washington, USA

An Irish-language headstone for Mary Barrett. For the story, see: www.irishtimes.com/life-and-sty...