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Unknown maker — Untitled (Two Boys Holding a Deceased Baby)

Unknown maker

Untitled (Two Boys Holding a Deceased Baby)

1850

Reflecting the Victorian-era practice of post-mortem photography, two young brothers pose solemnly with their deceased infant sibling in a touching memorial that served as the family's only photographic record of the child.

Medium
Daguerreotype

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Unknown maker, Untitled (Two Boys Holding a Deceased Baby), 1850

Reflecting the Victorian-era practice of post-mortem photography, two young brothers pose solemnly with their deceased infant sibling in a touching memorial that served as the family's only photographic record of the child.

Medium
Daguerreotype
Year
1850
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, American, Photograph, Melancholic, Historical, Two Figures, Portrait, Children, Daguerreotype

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