mourning picture

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motif in American funerary art

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    In folk art: Content and motifs

    …two American forms: the “mourning picture,” executed in embroidery or watercolour, often depicting grieving figures draped around a tombstone under weeping willows, and the gravestone carved with a winged death’s-head or, later, with the urn-and-willow motif.

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