Whistler's Little Birds
I walk through this graveyard most days and I always discover a new grave I hadn't noticed before.
I can't believe I missed this tomb of James Whistler, the painter (apparently he was big mates with Claude Monet and was obsessed with Hogarth which is why he was buried here in Chiswick Cemetery). Whistler used to sign his paintings with a butterfly. I couldn't see any butterflies on his tomb so here we have two little birds.
The brass statues form the corners of the tomb and have been stolen twice, once in 1966 after 1 day of being replaced because of an earlier theft!
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