Name/TitleAgnes Stewart Dodds : Old Melbourne Cemetery, c. 1920
About this objectPhotograph of the monument placed over the remains of Agnes Stewart Dodds, and her two infant sons.
Selby describes the gravestone as a "railed grave with a good sandstone monument with angel's face over it... It is generally recognised as a work of art." The angels face with wings is carved centrally on the pediment top of the headstone. The text is carved into a shield-shaped panel.
The inscription reads: (152 in Selby's grave index, p. 382 OPMHoM)
SACRED (Gothic script)
To The Memory Of
AGNES STEWART
Wife Of
CHARLES DODDS
SETTLER WESTERN PORT
Who Departed This Life
On The 17th Febry 1841
In The 21st Year Of Her Age
and (Gothic script)
Her Two Infant Sons
CHARLES And WILLIAM
There is a sad notice published in the Melbourne Advertiser of 22nd February, 1841. It reads: "Birth. At New Town, on the 7th instant, Mrs. Charles Dodds, of a son.
Died. At New Town, on the 17th instant, in the twenty-first year of her age, Agnes, wife of Charles Dodds, Esq., late of West Bank, East Lothian.
This image is attributed to Everard Studley Miller who photographed many graves and tombstones in the Old Melbourne Cemetery (established in 1837) around 1920 as part of a project led by Isaac Selby to record and commemorate all aspects of Melbourne's second cemetery (the first being at Flagstaff Hill). The RHSV holds original glass negatives and albums of the photographs from this project.
One of the many glass slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund. Selby numbered this slide #34.
For more information about this image contact Royal Historical Society of Victoria.
MakerMiller, Everard Studley, 1886-1956.
Maker RolePhotographer
Measurements8.2 x 8.2 cm
Period1910-1920
Object TypePhotograph
Subject and Association KeywordsSelby, Isaac, 1859-1956
Subject and Association KeywordsMiller, Everard Studley, 1886-1956.
Subject and Association KeywordsOld Melbourne Cemetery (Melbourne)
Subject and Association KeywordsDodds, Agnes Mary, 1820-1841
Subject and Association KeywordsMonuments and memorials
Subject and Association KeywordsWomen
Named CollectionImages collection
Object numberGS-TM-23
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