Angel of Grief

The original Angel of Grief in Rome.

Other view

Angel of Grief is an 1894 sculpture by William Wetmore Story which serves as the grave stone of the artist and his wife at the Protestant Cemetery, Rome.

A replica located in Palo Alto, California was made in 1901 to honor Henry Lathrop, brother to Jane Stanford, Stanford University co-founder, but was severely damaged in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, leading to its replacement in 1908. After years of neglect, the 1908 replacement was fully restored in 2001.

This style of monument is also referred to as "Weeping Angel."

Copies or replicas in the United States

• Cassard Monument, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, 1909 or 1910

pictured in Victorian Cemetery Art

• Chapman H Hyams tomb, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana - early 20th century

pictured in New Orleans Architecture, Volume lll: the Cemeteries

• Di Cesare Monument, Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester, NY

• Hooper monument, Hingham, Massachusetts -

pictured in Memorial Art, Ancient and Modern

• Lathrop Memorial, Stanford Arboretum, Stanford University, California, Antonio Bernieri, sculptor, 1908

A photo of the Memorial after the 1906 quake, showing the fallen canopy.

• Pool Memorial, Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, California

pictured in Permanent Californians: An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of California This memorial is about 3/4 scale compared to the Lathrop Memorial.

• Trorlicht Monument, Calvary Cemetery. St. Louis, Missouri

pictured in Soul in the Stone: Cemetery Art From America's Heartland

• Three Texas Angels of Grief, [1]

Glenwood Cemetery in Houston, Texas

Scottsville-Youree Cemetery in Scottsville, Texas, established by the Shreveport banker Peter Youree to honor his son

Calvary Cemetery in Denison.

• Steen Monument, Oakland Cemetery Little Rock, Arkansas

• Chapel of the Chimes, Hayward, California

• Reverend Thomas Teasdale monument, Friendship Cemetery, Columbus, Mississippi

Copies or replicas in the United Kingdom

• Penarth County Cemetery Cardiff, Wales

Copies or replicas in Canada

• North Vancouver Cemetery Vancouver, British Columbia

This replica is visible at the end of the 2010 movie Charlie St. Cloud.

Copies or replicas in Costa Rica

• Cementerio General San José, Costa Rica

pictured in http://www.panoramio.com/photo/2547536

Copies or replicas in Luxembourg

• Limbertsberg's Notre-Dame cemetery (Luxembourg) Limpertsberg

Images

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  Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester, NY

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  A loose interpretation in York, Pennsylvania

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  Hyams Monument, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans

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  Hyams Monument, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, USA

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  Hyams Monument, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, LA

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  Hyams Monument, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, LA

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  Teasdale Monument, Columbus, MS.

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  Back of Teasdale monument.

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  Hooper Memorial (1912), Hingham, Massachusetts, USA

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  Hooper Memorial, Old Ship Burying Ground, Hingham, MA.

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  Hill Monument,
  Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, TX

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  Lathrop Memorial,
  Stanford University,
  Palo Alto, CA

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  Lathrop Memorial,
  Stanford University,
  Palo Alto, CA

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  Lathrop Memorial ca. 1915, Stanford University,
  Palo Alto, CA

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  Pool Monument,
  Cypress Lawn Cemetery, Colma, CA

Link to more images at Flickr.

Reproductions in popular culture

Pictures of the statue appear on the covers of Evanescence EP by Evanescence (1998), Once by Nightwish (2004), Embossed Dream in Four Acts by Odes of Ecstasy (1998) and Letanías: Capítulo III by Anabantha (2006). All four bands have arguably gothic influences. It is also featured on the album art of The Edges of Twilight by The Tea Party (1995). It was also used in the documentary Flight from Death.

References

• Bliss, Harry A., Memorial Art, Ancient and Modern, Harry A Bliss, Monument Photographer, Buffalo N.Y., 1912 p176
• Brown, John Gary, Soul in the Stone: Cemetery Art From America's Heartland, University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 1994
• Culbertson Randall, Permanent Californians: An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of California, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, Chelsea Vermont, 1989
• Christovich, Huber, McDowell, photographs by Betsy Swanson, New Orleans Architecture, Volume lll: the Cemeteries, Pelican Publishing Co., Gretna, 1997
• Gillon, Edmond V., Victorian Cemetery Art, Dover Publications Inc., New York, 1972
• Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, America's Cemetery Sculpture, unpublished manuscript
• Richman, Jeff, author of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery New York’s Buried Treasure, phone interview with E. E. Kvaran, September 2006