THE SEWELL CROSS 
DESIGNED AND MODELED 
BY 
A. Stirling Calder 
RECENTLY ERECTED 
IN HARLEIGH CEMETERY, 
CAMDEN, N. J. 
DISTINCTIVE 
and individual 
monument to a per¬ 
son deceased has been 
for several months the 
object of a sculptor’s 
study and labor, and 
has now been erected 
in a retired portion 
of Harleigh Ceme¬ 
tery, Camden, N. J. 
Inasmuch as all works 
of this nature are 
necessarily symbolic—and this 
in particular is almost entirely 
so—the following light upon 
the accompanying illustrations 
may be found interesting. 
The Sewell Cross is an at¬ 
tempt to create, within the 
freely used limits of the style 
of the ancient Celtic cross, a 
personal illumination in relief, 
of the impressive moral char¬ 
acteristics of a modern indi¬ 
vidual. In pursuit of this ob¬ 
ject the sculpture has been de¬ 
veloped as a sort of weaving 
of what are, for the most part, 
invented symbols and imagi¬ 
native decoration illustrating 
the manly virtues, merged with 
generalizations on the mystery 
of existence. Structurally the 
cross, with its tall shaft and 
small head, approaches the 
Scottish type, while in the 
character of arrangement and 
architectural enrichment there 
is a tendency to Byzantine 
profusion. Departure from 
the usual Celtic form is made 
in the pierced center of the 
head, the terminations of the 
THE HEAD OF THE CROSS 
Copyright, IQ04 
Alex. Stirling Calder 
THE GRAVE MARKER 
Copyright, 11)04, Alex. Stirling Calder 
arms and the but¬ 
tressed base. The 
squarely incised sculp¬ 
ture of the paneling 
refers particularly and 
generally to the char¬ 
acter of the man to 
whose memory the 
work was erected. 
The panels on the 
front of the cross are 
marked by the Herald 
of Heath , the Stoical 
Digger, a Helmsman , and the 
Phcenix. Under these may be 
read the Latin inscriptions cor¬ 
responding to each, as the 
Peace of Heath, of the indefat¬ 
igable, vigilant toiler, whose 
immortality triumphs. On the 
reverse, Faith, Charity, Cour¬ 
age, and Gentleness illumine 
the remembrance of the de¬ 
ceased. The central panel of 
the head, pierced through the 
thickness of the cross, sym¬ 
bolizes man’s eternal repent¬ 
ance—two bowed figures with 
arms uplifted in united appeal, 
between which grows the fruit¬ 
ful tree, with its serpent, the 
ancient emblem of Tempta¬ 
tion. This is flanked on the 
arms by masks of Hope and 
Fear, between which man vac¬ 
illates, and above is an enig¬ 
matical arrangement of wings, 
globe, arrow, and heart, which 
stands for Love all swaying. 
On the reverse of the head the 
same passions are expressed 
somewhat differently. The 
family coat of arms is heraldic, 
as is also, although here 
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