Anna Fairley Nielsson

#MementoMori imagery on a vault lid in the floor of Palma cathedral, Mallorca

Everyone gets to be dead, but at least wear a fancy hat.

This is just what I needed right now.

Part of a worn stone ledger in the floor of Lincoln Cathedral.

Anthony and Anna Binns - "the best of Parents and the most sincere Friends" at Lincoln Cathedral.

Aah! Amazing! Congratulations ❤️ (Sorry about the moving stress tho :/)

A photo of a series of mausoleums with a dramatic sky in the background.

This afternoon, @tealcartoons.bsky.social and I visited San Michele Cemetery. It's one of my favourite spaces in Venice - a whole island of the dead! Here's a thread on some of the more unusual graves we came across. /1

Ooh. Do you know if anything came of the discussion? I'm aiming to investigate this (lack of) commemoration (as it seems the same on this side of the Atlantic) as well as how burial was managed in these times of crisis.

I just pulled the book down from my bookshelf yesterday afternoon!

Transatlantic comparative study of epidemic burial and commemoration - which as far as I’ve found so far has had very little attention! But that’s the kind of thing that’s good to know, thank you!

I don’t need to directly name any collaborators in the application, but I need to be able to say I’m aware of x person or institution who has done x work, and I’m just checking I haven’t overlooked anyone 😊

That’s a fair point. It’s a Wellcome Early Careers proposal so I would be the only researcher, but I’m keen to make sure I know of all the connections that might be possible ahead of time.

This is great, thank you!

Great, thank you!

Individuals or key contacts at organisations ideally. The Dublin Cemeteries Trust is on my list but I'm currently just at the scattergun approach to make sure I'm not missing anything!

Help please! I'm putting together a big research proposal that will involve investigating C19th-early C20th burials in Liverpool, Dublin and NYC. If anyone knows of anyone in Dublin & NY who would be helpful for me to talk to/work with, or specific locations of interest, pls drop them here?! 🪦

Something a bit more cheerful!

Today I made a snowman for the first time ⛄️

📍Nant Ddu 🪦

#Wales

The chart shows the distribution of burials per year at Lister Lane Cemetery from 1842 to 1963.

Ahh I just saw this!! So many congratulations!! 🥳❤️

Some of them have to involve wandering in graveyards, right??

A tall, upright sandstone monument with a gently rounded top, standing in a quiet path of Brompton cemetery. Across the upper region is the Christogram “☧” (Chi-Rho) flanked by the Greek letters Alpha and Omega. Beneath, in shallow-relief capital letters, the inscription reads: IN MEMORY OF FOUR CHILDREN WHO WERE CALLED OUT OF THIS LIFE INTO A BETTER IN THE EASTER WEEK OF 1852: JOSEPH MENES BORN JUNE 5TH 1846 DIED APRIL 25TH 1852 CAUTLEY FREDERICK BORN NOVR. 6TH 1847 DIED APRIL 25TH 1852 JESSIE BORN JULY 22ND 1849 DIED APRIL 25TH 1852 JOHN IGNATIUS BORN SEPT. 12TH 1851 DIED APRIL 25TH 1852 ALSO THEIR GRANDMOTHER SUSAN WIDOW OF JOHN MARTIN DIED THE 26TH AUGUST 1858 ALSO THEIR MOTHER JESSIE DAUGHTER OF JOHN MARTIN DIED 10TH SEPTEMBER 1859 AGED 34 YEARS AND THEIR FATHER JOSEPH BONOMI SCULPTOR, TRAVELLER AND ARCHAEOLOGIST BORN 9TH OCTOBER 1796 APPOINTED CURATOR OF SIR JOHN SOANE’S MUSEUM 1861 DIED 3RD MARCH 1878 (At the base) IN LOVING MEMORY OF COLONEL J. I. BONOMI DIED 27TH MARCH 1930 Below the inscription is a carved square panel showing the Egyptian god Anubis (jackal-headed) seated on a stylised funerary tomb, signifying the deceased’s lifelong devotion to ancient Egypt. The monument combines the Christian symbolism at the top with the Egyptian iconography at its centre, reflecting Joseph Bonomi’s dual identity as both a Victorian Christian and a pioneering Egyptologist. After years of sketching temples along the Nile, he returned to London to help reshape how ancient Egypt was presented to Victorian audiences. He became Curator of the Sir John Soane’s Museum in 1861. His final resting place is in Brompton Cemetery, London. a modest curved headstone but rich in symbolism: Carved with a depiction of the jackal-headed god Anubis guarding a tomb, and surrounded by hieroglyphic touches that reflect his lifelong fascination with ancient Egypt.

Day 29: Occupation

Joseph Bonomi (1796–1878) sculptor, traveller, and pioneer Egyptologist.

#31daysofgraves

#31daysofgraves Day 24: Unique Animal. A pair of griffins (I think?) on the tablestone for Leonard Chester, 1648, in Wethersfield, Connecticut. It is one of the oldest dated gravestones in New England, and it was carved by my distant grandfather(s), Matthew and/or George Griswold.

Day 24 #31DaysOfGraves and the prompt is 'unique animal'. Ive taken a bit of a liberty and chosen a reptile 🐢 But I couldn't not share this wonderful tortoise.

📍St John the Baptist, Aylmerton, Norfolk

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Quilt with images of bats, spiders and webs

#Halloween quilt via Sylvia Schaefer, Flying parrot Quilts #WomensArt

I missed this one! I love it.

#31daysofgraves Day 31: Memento Mori. Henry Robe, 1807, at Copp’s Hill Burying Ground in Boston. Carved by William Bartlett. I know it’s supposed to be an hourglass that he is holding, but I prefer to think of it as the reaper unwinding and enjoying a cold beer after a long day of harvesting souls.

Thank you! 🥰 I still have some to catch up on I think so will make it last through to next week!

And never too soon to get working on a collection for next year!

#31daysofgraves
Day31 #mementomori
‘remember (that you have) to die"

Morebattle Cemetery Kelso Scottish Borders
One engraved in the exterior wall of the church
Another on the cemetery wall
One a headstone
I think we get the message!

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Intriguing hat (hair?!) on the last image!