Detail of monument to Elizabeth Paton dated 1676 with robed skeleton in tympanum at top.
SC 560156
Description Detail of monument to Elizabeth Paton dated 1676 with robed skeleton in tympanum at top.
Collection Papers of Betty Willsher, historian, St Andrews, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 560156
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 4265/2
Scope and Content Detail of a mural monument commemorating Elizabeth Paton, Greyfriars burial ground, Edinburgh This mural monument commemorates Elizabeth Paton, who died in 1678, aged 40. Its lengthy Latin inscription records that her husband, John Cunningham of Enterkin, erected this memorial to his beloved wife, and extols Elizabeth's many virtues. Within the upper part of this panel are the figures of Death, crowned and robed, wielding a sceptre and tablet. A winged and kneeling Father Time to his right, presents his hourglass to Death. On the left is a mourning cupid, leaning on a skull. The 16th-century church and churchyard of Greyfriars takes its name from a Franciscan friary which stood at the east of the Grassmarket until 1558. In 1562, Greyfriars became the Burgh burial-ground in a Crown grant made by Mary Queen of Scots. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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