Part 4 (1/2)

”To Ann Chared 54 years”

No one to whoiven a satisfactory interpretation of it, but it will be allowed that the design is as graceful as it is uncoarded as a natural supposition

Even the open or half-open coffin, shewing the skeleton within,at the Last Day We have this figure employed in a co one example of nineteenth-century sculpture

FIG 36--AT FAWKHAM

”Thoed 1 month 1 day”

A crown is usually the emblem of Victory, but held in the hand, as in this instance, it indicates, I a wholly or partly the corpse or skeleton within are perhaps not intended to convey any such pious or poetic thought as do the two foregoing, but siery much fancied by the old stonemasons

[Illustration: FIG 34 DARENTH]

[Illustration: FIG 35 KINGSDOWN]

[Illustration: FIG 36 FAWKHAM]

[Illustration: FIG 37 SWANsob]

[Illustration: FIG 38 ASHFORD]

[Illustration: FIG 39 COOLING]

[Illustration: FIG 40 HENDON]

[Illustration: FIG 41 EAST WICKHAM]

[Illustration: FIG 42 SNARGATE]

[Illustration: FIG 43 EAST HAM]

FIG 37--AT SWANsob

”To Elizabeth Hall, died 1779, aged 76 years”

FIG 38--AT ASHFORD

”To Stephen Kennedy, died Sept 1791, aged 61 years”

In the latter illustration there are three stars to which I can give no signification The snake-ring is, of course, eternity, and the book, as before surenious, ether ns belonging to the same period of time They are not only as a rule conceived in better taste, but are, al exae in the Medway Marshes, is an excellent specimen of its class, and a very exceptional ”find” for a spot so remote

FIG 39--AT COOLING

”To M'r Richard Prebble of Cliffe, died April 1775”

One of later date at Hendon, Middlesex, is also to be commended The lyre, cornet, and taures of Fae box in the background is not quite certain of correct interpretation