• Victorian Post‑Mortem Photograph – Overpainted Mother and Child Memorial Portrait (c.19th Century)
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  • Memento Mori Mother with Child - Room Four
  • Memento Mori Mother with Child - Room Four
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Victorian Post‑Mortem Photograph – Overpainted Mother and Child Memorial Portrait (c.19th Century)

Victorian Post‑Mortem Photograph – Overpainted Mother and Child Memorial Portrait (c.19th Century)

£175.00 GBP
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Mother with Child. Over painted photograph of grieving Mother with post mortem baby. Not uncommon in Victorian England, this type of image became a way of commemorating the dead and blunting the sharpness of grief. Simultaneously unsettling and strangely poignant, families often posed with the dead relatives, infants appear asleep, and consumptive young ladies elegantly recline.

Victorian life was suffused with death. Epidemics such as diphtheria, typhus and cholera scarred the country, and from 1861 the bereaved Queen made mourning fashionable.

 Dimensions: Frame 42cm x 39cm /Image 29cm x 22cm

collection & Local Delivery Glasgow G40

 

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