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Example of the early plain style on this tombstone carved by George Griswold dated 1675. Hartford Ancient Burying Ground. The earliest known New England stonecutters were George Griswold and his uncle Matthew, who settled in Windsor, Connecticut around 1640. Matthew carved the oldest known grave marker in the New World, a table monument made of ...
The Proscribed Royalist, 1651 (1852-1853) is a painting by John Everett Millais which depicts a young Puritan woman protecting a fleeing Royalist after the Battle of Worcester in 1651, the decisive defeat of Charles II by Oliver Cromwell. The Royalist is hiding in a hollow tree, a reference to a famous incident in which Charles himself hid in a ...
The Puritans have often been depicted wearing simple black and white, but for them, the color "black" was itself considered too bold for regular use and was reserved for community elders and for highly formal occasions such as when having one's portrait painted. Black was considered so formal in part because black dye was difficult to obtain ...
The winter scene depicts the 17th-century Puritan settlers of New England, later identified specifically as the Pilgrim Fathers, as a small armed group of somberly clad, God-fearing souls making their way from right to left through a snowy, recently cleared wood to a house of worship (a small building visible in the left background).
The statue weighs 1800 pounds. [2]The figure is about nine feet and so is the pedestal. [3]The front of the statue's plinth reads: JOHN BRIDGE • 1578–1665 • left braintree, essex county, england. 1631 • as a member of rev. mr. hooker's company • settled here 1632 • and stayed when that company • removed to connecticut.
Published by Boston University and The Currier Gallery of Art for The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, 1979. An exhibition catalog for a Loan Exhibition held at the Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH. ISBN 0-87270-050-X. Bliss, William Root: Side Glimpses from the Colonial Meeting House. Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, New York, 1894.
The Old Ship Church, a Puritan meetinghouse in Hingham, Massachusetts. The plain style reflects the Calvinist values of the Puritans. In the years after the Antinomian Controversy, Congregationalists struggled with the problem of decreasing conversions among second-generation settlers.
'The Puritan Portrait: Its Function in Old and New England', in Seventeenth-Century New England, ed. David D. Hall and Philip Chadwick Foster Smith. Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1984, 153–84; Promey, Sally, 'Seeing the Self "in frame": Early New England Material Practice and Puritan Piety', Material Religion 1 (2005), 10–46