SEDDON’S PICTURE OF “JERUSALEM.”
On the 23rd November, 1856, the gifted young artist, Thomas Seddon, died at Cairo on his way to the Holy Land. He was buried with all due solemnity in the same small cemetery whither he had, two years before, followed the remains of Mr. Nicholson (a traveller whom he accidentally met on his first journey to the East), and which he has touchingly described in a letter written at that time. A marble slab, surmounted by a simple, plain cross, with the following inscription at its foot,
“To me to live is Christ, and to die is gain,”
marks the spot where his remains rest. On the slab itself is engraved,
“THOMAS SEDDON, Artist,
Who died at Cairo, the 23rd of November, 1856.”
To which is added a verse from one of his favourite hymns,
“Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not deplore thee,
Whose God was thy Ransom, thy Guardian, thy Guide;