Contributed by Maine Historical Society
Description
The headstone of Rebeckah Lewis at Stroudwater Cemetery in Portland shows unusual detail. The female figure represents sorrow or grief.
Bartlett Adams, Portland's first stone cutter, carved the headstone around 1788. The photograph was captured in 1965.
About This Item
- Title: Headstone of Rebeckah Lewis, Portland, 1788
- Creator: Mason Philip Smith
- Creation Date: 1965
- Subject Date: circa 1788
- Location: Stroudwater Cemetery, Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 20 cm x 24 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 430, Box 1/3
- Collection: Mason Philip Smith photographs of gravestones in Maine cemeteries
- Object Type: Image
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- Christian art and symbolism
- Death
- Death in art
- Epitaphs--Maine--Portland
- Inscriptions--Maine--Portland
- Lewis, Rebeckah, d. 1788--Death & Burial--Photographs
- Lewis, Rebeckah, d. 1788--Monuments--Photographs
- Sepulchral monuments
- Soul in art
- Tombs & sepulchral monuments--Maine--Portland--Photographs
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For more information about this item, contact:
Maine Historical Society485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 774-1822 x230
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