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Tombstone of Dominic Dowgiałło, Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris (France), photo prof. Sławomir Górzyński, 2025 r.
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Tombstone of Dominic Dowgiałło, Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris (France), photo prof. Sławomir Górzyński, 2025 r.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Source: Instytut Polonika, License terms and conditions
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Tombstone of Dominik Dowgiałła

Paris | France
Père-Lachaise Cemetery
ID: NGR-019322-P/194031

Tombstone of Dominik Dowgiałła

Paris | France
Père-Lachaise Cemetery

Slightly sloping casket on a two-sided base (the higher one ending in a moulding) with a cover projecting beyond the light of the walls, on the cover of the casket, at the head above the inscription, a coat of arms.

Coats of arms: Quarterly shield in crosshair, in the first red field (sash) a meadow-owl (Abdank - Dowgiałło family), in the second blue field a five-leaved rose (Poraj; at present illegible), in the third field a hippocentaurus aiming from a bow at its tail (Hippocentaurus), in the fourth red field between two crescents in pole, shoulders facing each other, sword pointing down (Ostoja). Above the shield a prince's mitre from beneath which a mantle covering the shield, knotted at the horns.

Inscription:

DOMINICUS JAWNUT / DOWGIAŁŁO / POLONUS / NATUS LITHUANIAE 4. AÛT 1789 / OBIIT PARISIIS 22 JUNII 1857. / ---- / ORATE PRO EO / ---- //.
 

Related persons:

Dominik Dowgiałło

Tombstone location:

Sector number 53 Tomb number 165

Dimensions:

77 x 100 x 200 cm

Additional dimensions:

cover: 158 x 81 cm, height: front: 59 cm, back: 77 cm

Materials:

marble, limestone

Additional Information about materials:

white marble (cover)

Additional information:

concession no: 514 P 1857; À PERPÉTUITÉ No 1[3?]7, 528

perpetual concession purchased on 22 June 1857 by Dominik Dowgiałło's son

location: div. 53, row 1 ch. Mont Louis, gr. 25 from the junction of av. de la Chapelle and av. Feuillant

description of the coat of arms based on a reading from the 1980s, although as late as 2010. The glove in field I was well legible

Comments on the state of preservation and visible restoration:

Coat of arms very faded

Keywords:

gravestone monument, coat of arms, tumba

Date of documentation:

2025

Publication:

28.09.2025

Last updated:

29.09.2025

Author of the documentation sheet:

prof. Sławomir Górzyński
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A moss-covered tombstone of Dominik Dowgiałło with a sloping lid and a two-stage base, located in the cemetery. The tombstone is decorated with a coat of arms with a quadrangular shield and a ducal mitre. Photo showing Tombstone of Dominik Dowgiałła Gallery of the object +1
Tombstone of Dominic Dowgiałło, Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris (France), photo prof. Sławomir Górzyński, 2025 r.
Sloping tumba on stepped base with projecting lid, with coat of arms at head. Tumba surrounded by other graves, with trees in the background. Photo showing Tombstone of Dominik Dowgiałła Gallery of the object +1
Tombstone of Dominic Dowgiałło, Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris (France), photo prof. Sławomir Górzyński, 2025 r.
Photo showing Tombstone of Dominik Dowgiałła

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