God's acre beautiful, or, The cemeteries of the future / by W. Robinson.
- William Robinson
- Date:
- 1880
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: God's acre beautiful, or, The cemeteries of the future / by W. Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![f • [ 19 ] than the costly funeral trappings used in the most imposing burial pageant of modern times. Of urns of a more ambitious kind, the variety and the beauty are often remark- able, as may be seen in our national and vari- ous private collections. It would be a gain to art if some of the money spent on coffins, which rot unseen in the earth, were devoted to such urns, which do not decay, and which might be placed in the light of day, and perhaps teach a lesson in art as well as bear a record. There is a square-sided marble urn in the Woburn collection, with simple carving of the shoots of the common ivy over it, which is more suggestive of all that is beautiful in a memorial than any elaborate effort in a modern cemetery. The ceremony of burial in this way, too, how different it may be made from that with which we are familiar! What a contrast](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20396855_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
