ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the different forms of visual presentation of the child on funeral monuments, namely: kneeling, swaddled and standing or, more appropriately, 'upright', since it is not clear from their half-images if the two children in Catalogue. There are only two monuments in the Catalogue that depict swaddled children. The earlier monument, to Jan and Malgorzata von Sedlnicki, is situated in a border region, in Kamieniec. This is just within what was Silesia but close to the Duchy of Siewierz, which came under the jurisdiction of the bishops of Krakow. The second monument, to Zofia and Anna, in Koscian, is unusual in several respects. Most of the monuments that depict the child standing are from border areas along the western and northern areas of Poland. The history of the earliest of these monuments, to the sister and brother Ewa and Stanislaw Wilkowski, from Wilkowo, demonstrates the problems of emphasising geographic borders rather than confessional and cultural borders.
