Angel of Grief, (sculpture).

Angel of Grief, (sculpture).

Story, William Wetmore, 1819-1895, sculptor.

Angel of Grief, (sculpture).

Maria L. Hooper Memorial, (sculpture).

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Sculpture: marble; Base: granite.

Sculpture: approx. 64 x 58 x 72 in.; Base: approx. 14 x 61 1/2 x 73 1/2 in.

(On upper front of sculpture, raised letters:) IN MEMORIAM/MARIA L. HOOPER/SEPT. 17, 1827,/APR. 1, 1891. (On lower front of sculpture, immediately above the base, raised letters:) HOOPER unsigned

A figure of a grieving winged angel kneels behind a sepulchre monument. The angel's forehead rests on its proper right forearm which spans fully across the top of the sepulchre. The figure's proper left arm is extended out over the top of the sepulchre. Anthemions stand at each corner of the top of the sepulchre and there is an inscription within a bas-relief laurel wreath . A full relief laurel branch decorates the lower stepped base.

Religion -- New Testament -- Angel

Allegory -- Passion -- Grief

Homage -- Hooper, Maria L.

Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Hingham

Coadministered by Hingham Cemetery Corporation, 12 South Street, Hingham, Massachusetts 02043

Coadministered by Town of Hingham, Historical Commission, 7 East Street, Hingham, Massachusetts 02043

Located Hingham Cemetery, 12 South Street, Hingham, Massachusetts 02043

The sculpture is one of several replicas of the artist's original 1895 Angel of Grief located at Cimitero Protestante in Rome, Italy. For additional information see: the Boston Sunday Globe, Jan. 28, 1996, pg. B-1; George Lincoln's "History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, Vol. II, pg. 351-352; and Walter Muir Whitehill's "Boston Statues," Barre, Mass.: Barre Publisher, 1970, pg. 33, 94.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1994.

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