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Detail of tympanum on Thomas Bannatyne monument dated 1638.
SC 560284
Description Detail of tympanum on Thomas Bannatyne monument dated 1638.
Collection Papers of Betty Willsher, historian, St Andrews, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 560284
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 37007 PO
Scope and Content Collapsed finial panel from a mural monument commemorating Thomas Bannatyne, Greyfriars burial ground, Edinburgh This panel is the finial of a monument commemorating Thomas Bannatyne, who died in 1635 aged 65. His wife, Janet MacMath, erected this elegant memorial. Thomas may have been a nephew of the famous collector of Scots poetry, George Bannatyne. A putto, an embodiment of youth or the soul, holds an hourglass (mortality) and sits beside a skull and crossbones (death). Amongst the wheat growing to the left are poppy-heads, a metaphor for sleep or eternal rest. 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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