View of gravestone of John Dryman, 1745, showing scene from Quarle's Emblems. Digital image of B 4388/19.

Description View of gravestone of John Dryman, 1745, showing scene from Quarle's Emblems. Digital image of B 4388/19.

Date 1990

Collection Papers of Betty Willsher, historian, St Andrews, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 794659

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 4388/19

Scope and Content Gravestone of John Drynnan, Inch Old Parish Church and Burial Ground, Dumfries & Galloway This gravestone features a design based on an illustration from Francis Quarles's (1592-1644) 'Emblems, Moral and Divine', first published in 1635. The stone illustrates quotation VIII, from Book III: 'Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy' (Job, XIII, 24). In the original illustration, the children are shown as winged putti (small cherubs). The stone features a border of drapes over a bar, supported by scrolling foliage. Emblem books use a combination of Biblical or devotional texts with symbolic illustrations to reinforce a moral or scriptural meaning. They were widely read between the 17th and 19th centuries, and are one of the sources used by monumental masons in their designs. This gravestone commemorates John Drynnan, who died in 1748, and his daughter Martha Drynnan, who died in 1749. The stone is inscribed; 'Here lyeth the corps of John/Drynnan who died in the Lord in/Hopes of a Blessed Resurrection upon the 20 of Julie 1748 aged/63 years also his daughter/Martha Drynnan who died/in the Lord in Hopes of a Blessed/Resurrection 4th December 1749/aged 29'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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