Post mortem pictures victorian

*Shudder*

The invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 made portraiture much more commonplace, as many of those who were unable to afford the commission...

Slightly more macabre follow up post to Hidden mothers in Victorian photography. Post-mortem photography is the practice of photographing the recently deceased. It is also known as memorial portrai…

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BY LIZ VON KLEMPERER To love someone is to want to give them your body. To love someone is to want to be given their body. No one illustrates this point more grotesquely and tenderly than The Victorians, who bundled the hair of their lovers and wove it into jewelry. Men, for e

A ‘cabinet card’ featuring an image of a nun from Quebec. Notice the strategically placed crown of thorns to the left on the table. After its creation in 1860, the use of the cabinet card became a hugely popular photography trend, quickly eclipsing other emerging photographic methods. Used primarily for portraiture, the styles of vintage cabinet cards were widely variable when it came to color formats, the types of card stock to which photographs were mounted, as well as other design…

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1/6 daguerreotype of a Victorian mother posed with her daughter. Little sweetie is posed sitting in a high chair and looks like she is holding money? One of my favorites.

from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

This site exists to discredit the idea of the Victorian standing post mortem photo. Post mortem photos do exist, but none of them are stand alone.