Avon Neal, Ann Parker

Timothy Lindall, Salem, Massachusetts, 1698/9
1963

An aged parchment featuring a gravestone rubbing with a central inscription that reads "Here Lyeth Buried the Body of Mr Timothy Lindall Aged 56 Years & 7 Mo: Deceased January ye 6 1698." Flanking the text are two arched panels, the left depicting a skeleton and the right showing a shrouded figure with wings, possibly representing death and the soul. Above the inscription is a winged cherub's face. The artwork has a historical and somber tone, capturing the style of 17th-century gravestone art.

An aged parchment featuring a gravestone rubbing with a central inscription that reads "Here Lyeth Buried the Body of Mr Timothy Lindall Aged 56 Years & 7 Mo: Deceased January ye 6 1698." Flanking the text are two arched panels, the left depicting a skeleton and the right showing a shrouded figure with wings, possibly representing death and the soul. Above the inscription is a winged cherub's face. The artwork has a historical and somber tone, capturing the style of 17th-century gravestone art.

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Date
1963

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Wax crayon on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 21 1/4 × 33 15/16in. (54 × 86.2 cm)

Accession number
75.41.1

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/25422

Part of a series:

A Portfolio of Rubbings from Early American Stone Sculpture Found in the Burying Grounds of New England

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Avon Neal
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Ann Parker
48 works in the collection

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