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A winged child's face carved on a gravestone.
Also known as: Cherub head, Winged angel head
A round face with wings and no body — a soul effigy. The motif that displaced the winged skull through the eighteenth century, and the middle term in the best-documented stylistic sequence in gravestone studies.
A winged face without a body, carved at the head of a gravestone and understood as the soul of the deceased in flight.
18th century especially · Contexts: History
Occupies the middle position in the death's head → soul effigy → urn-and-willow sequence, which is documented closely enough in dated burial grounds to be used in dating a stone whose inscription has weathered away.
New England and Britain
A round face carved in outline facing forward with no body, a spread wing extending from each side at the level of the cheeks.
The urn and willow displaced the soul effigy at the end of the eighteenth century.