Monument To Oppenheim And Schroeter, Nunhead Cemetery

SOUTHWARK

TQ3575SW LINDEN GROVE 636-1/52/477 Monument to Oppenheim and Schroeter, Nunhead Cemetery

GV II

Funerary monument. c1876. To John Moritz Oppenheim (d.1864) and Frederick Schroeter (d.1876). By H Daniel, monumental mason. Portland stone with Carrara marble reliefs. A square plinth on a 2-stage base, with marble bas-reliefs on 3 sides and an inscription on the 4th, surmounted by a projecting entablature and a pedimented cover. The reliefs depict an angel beside a death-bed, an angel beside a female bust on a plinth which is fondled by a seated and blind mourning man, and a relief showing a woman with brushes and a palette. Unusual depictions of decease and lamentation: Oppenheim had been blind for the last twenty years of his life.

Listing NGR: TQ3538675417