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Gravestone rubbing on wove paper, in original gold painted carved wooden frame. Rubbing is of the cock, on the gravestone of Naomi Woolworth, which symbolizes a call to a new day. Signed on back, Details of Gravestone of Naomi Woolworth 1760, Longmeadow, MASS Rubbed by Ruth Cowell.

Further Details: In Longmeadow, Mass. is the Olde Burying Yard a fascinating outdoor museum / graveyard with only 448 gravestones from the 18th century. Naomi Woolworth along with her 6 day old son died at the age of 39 in 1760. Her grave is remarkable because of its symbolism: the scythe on the left symbolizes deaths tool to cut down the flower of life, under it is deaths dart as mentioned in, Paradise Lost. Centered and crowned is the hourglass whose sand has slipped to the bottom; time is supreme. To the right is the cock whose call brings in the new morning. Melvin G. Williams included a copy of this stonehead in his book, The Last Word.