WHISTLER'S TOMB.
There has recently, been erected in Chiswick Churchyard, the cost, being defrayed out of the Whistler estate, a tomb bearing _an inscription to the memory of Whistler (the famous painter) and" his wife, whose graves arc there side by side. The tomb is of bronze, resting upon a die and step of green granite, and the character of the design is that of tho Italian Renaissance. The upper part is ornamented with a frieze and bay leaves. At each of the four corners, standing upon the die, there is a. beautifully-carved fi-'-ur? of a classic mourner bearing an offerine of fruit or flowers. On the front, at cither side of the centre panel, there is an ornamentation of bay leaves'between two lonic pilasters. The .inscription on the centre panel is as follows:—
Sacred to the Memory of James M'Neill Whistler, MDCCCXXXIV.-MCMIII, • and of Beatrix, his Wife. MDCCCLVII-MDCCCXCVI. ■ "The place where I also at last hope to be hidden, a For in no other would I be." Mr. Edward Godwin is the sculptor.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1494, 17 July 1912, Page 3
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174WHISTLER'S TOMB. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1494, 17 July 1912, Page 3
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