From Slate to Marble

From Slate to Marble

Gravestone Carving Traditions in Eastern Massachusetts, 1750-1850:

by James Blachowicz

712 pages· 2015· ISBN 9780977203116
About
This is Volume II of the 2006 book with the same title.This is a comprehensive study of the bodies of work and biographies of over 65 early-American gravestone carvers resident in Boston, Newton, Charlestown, Salem, Newburyport, Haverhill, Lowell and Plympton.Contains over 900 duotone illustrations.It is accompanied by a flash drive with 1300 color images and an Excel database of over 22,000 gravestones from over 1200 cemeteries in all the New England states and beyond, with each attributed to a specific carver.

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