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Artist unknown — Untitled (Mother with Dead Child)

Artist unknown

Untitled (Mother with Dead Child)

1839

Post-mortem photography served an important commemorative function in 19th-century mourning rituals, often providing the only visual record of brief lives in an era of high infant mortality.

Medium
Daguerreotype

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Artist unknown, Untitled (Mother with Dead Child), 1839

Post-mortem photography served an important commemorative function in 19th-century mourning rituals, often providing the only visual record of brief lives in an era of high infant mortality.

Medium
Daguerreotype
Year
1839
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Intimate, Monochrome, Mother and Child, American, Photograph, Melancholic, Historical, Portrait, Figurative, Daguerreotype

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