Name: Cap. Caleb Graffam
Location: S. Windham, ME
Date: 1784
Carver: Joseph Sikes
Location: S. Windham, ME
Date: 1784
Carver: Joseph Sikes
Category Photography / Miscellaneous
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 820 x 1280px
File Size 626.3 kB
Exactly. I've seen it in some church images from the 1300s on. Perhaps J.S. lived in England in his youth (this grave dates to just after the end of the Revolutionary War). Maybe he brought the style from his homeland? Anyway, Mary Elder (1788) is an excellent example.
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