[A post-mortem portrait; young man three quarter length on a background of a white knit shawl with tassels.]
1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype
Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Call number: Uncat JWJ MS 59, Image ID Number: 1009540
LL/38168
1 of 59
Untitled (Postmortem Portait of a Man)
1848
Daguerreotype
Art Institute of Chicago
The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, purchased with funds provided by The Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust, Reference Number: 2019.581
LL/114487
2 of 59
[Portrait d'homme après décès]
1854-1860
Daguerreotype
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie
Identifier : ark:/12148/btv1b6903103c
LL/101411
3 of 59
Postmortem portrait of a man with ear and nose pluds
1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Bazar Nadar / Wouter Lambrechts
LL/95116
4 of 59
Close-up view of a man in a wood casket, blood exiting his mouth and staining his collar
n.d.
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Cowan's Auctions, Inc
American History: Premier Auction, 26 June 2018, Lot: 238
LL/83448 [Further details available]
5 of 59
Death Portrait of Doctor Amussat
1856
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
George Eastman Museum
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer, 76:0168:0004
LL/40639
6 of 59
Postmortem of an Unidentified Man
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
8.2 x 7.0 cm
George Eastman Museum
Museum accession, 1974.0193.1037
LL/69749
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Postmortem Unidentified Man
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
8.3 x 10.8 cm
George Eastman Museum
Museum accession, 1974.0193.1159
LL/69756
8 of 59
Post-Mortem of an Unidentified Man
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
10.8 x 8.3 cm
George Eastman Museum
Gift of Mrs. Alden Scott Boyer, 1974.0193.0561
LL/69770
9 of 59
1845-1855
Daguerreotype, Encased
Rijksmuseum
Copyright © Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (RP-F-F14381)
LL/25749
10 of 59
Post-mortem
n.d.
Daguerreotype, stereo
Musée d'Orsay
(C) RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski, Europeana Identifier: RMNDO000000295232 ; Pho2001-2-2
LL/42623
11 of 59
Post mortem portait of a woman
1841 (ca)
Daguerreotype
Private collection of Karen Hendrix
LL/80323 [Further details available]
12 of 59
Postmortem portrait
1857 (?)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, hand-coloured
Harvard Houghton Library
Repository: Houghton Library TypDAG2611, HOLLIS number: olvwork163120
LL/123913 [Further details available]
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America postmortem of a child
n.d.
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Stereographica - Antique Photographica
Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#21 / 91)
LL/32931
14 of 59
Portrait d'une petite fille morte
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype
7.2 x 5.9 cm
Musée d'Orsay
(C) RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski, Europeana Identifier: RMNDO000000278799 ; PHO1984-6
LL/42662
15 of 59
[Postmortem Portrait of an Infant]
1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype
J. Paul Getty Museum
Object Number: 84.XT.1582.7
LL/126189 [Further details available]
16 of 59
Post-mortem of Helen Maria, only daughter of Ebenezer and Frances L. Spalding, aged 10 months
1849, 9 January (death)
Daguerreotype
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/111895 [Further details available]
17 of 59
Post-mortem of a little girl
1840s (late)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, hand-tinted
Pennsylvania State University Library
The Heinz K. and Bridget A. Henisch Collection of the History of Photography, Image No. dag0159
LL/50754
18 of 59
Untitled [postmortem portrait of infant]
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype
8 x 7 cm (3 1/8 x 2 3/4 ins)
Harvard Art Museum / Fogg Museum
On deposit from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Item Identifier: 2.2002.7
LL/41595
19 of 59
My dead brother in his metallic coffin
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Record Number: 5641, Collection: Cased Photographs Collection [3139]
LL/44536 [Further details available]
20 of 59
Rosaline Holmes Harrison (Mrs. S. Decatur Harrison) with dead baby
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Record Number: 6426, Collection: Batcheler, Hartshorne, and Sahlin families papers [3173]
LL/44545
21 of 59
Rosaline Holmes Harrison (Mrs. Stephen Decatur Harrison) with baby before the funeral
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Record Number: 6441, Collection: Batcheler, Hartshorne, and Sahlin families papers [3173]
LL/44546
22 of 59
Postmortem portrait of a mother with her dead child
n.d.
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
Private collection of Nigel Maister
LL/64057
23 of 59
Untitled [postmortem infant portrait with mother]
1850s
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
8.26 x 6.99 cm (3 1/4 x 2 3/4 ins)
Harvard Art Museum / Fogg Museum
On deposit from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Item Identifier: 2.2002.12
LL/41600
24 of 59
Postmortem portrait of a mother and child
n.d.
Daguerreotype
Private collection of Steve DeGenaro
LL/60615
25 of 59
Jeune fille regardant sa sœur morte dans son lit
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
Baron Ribeyre & Associes
Gerard Levy Photographies de Collection L'Excellence d'un Regard, 20 December 2016, Lot: 13
LL/70458 [Further details available]
26 of 59
Postmortem of Girl in Red Dress
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
2 3/4 × 3 1/4 ins (6.99 × 8.26 cm) (plate)
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Object number: 2005.37.5
LL/80713
27 of 59
Post mortem with quilt
n.d.
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (46 / 43)
LL/8859 [Further details available]
28 of 59
Postmortem of a Child
1852
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, hand-coloured
2 11/16 x 3 11/16
J. Paul Getty Museum
© J. Paul Getty Trust (84.XT.267.9)
LL/6751
29 of 59
Dead Child On a Sofa
1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, with applied color
Cleveland Museum of Art
John L. Severance Fund, 2002.35
LL/70192
30 of 59
Portrait of an older woman post mortem
n.d.
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Stereographica - Antique Photographica
Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#17 / 124)
LL/17449 [Further details available]
31 of 59
1845-1855
Daguerreotype, Encased
Rijksmuseum
Copyright © Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (RP-F-F14379)
LL/25748
32 of 59
1845-1855
Daguerreotype, Encased
Rijksmuseum
Copyright © Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (RP-F-F14377)
LL/25757
33 of 59
An elderly man after his death.
1840-1855
Daguerreotype
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (L0041036, Library reference no.: Iconographic Collection 567728i)
LL/36782
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[Postmortem]
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype
8.9 x 11.9 cm (3 1/2 x 4 11/16 ins)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.31
LL/38281
35 of 59
Postmortem of a young child with eyes closed laid out on a white sheet and cushion
1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Record Number: 5898, Collection: Cased Photographs Collection [3139]
LL/44525 [Further details available]
36 of 59
Post-mortem portrait of a young girl
1850s
Daguerreotype
Private collection of Josh Taylor
LL/118552
37 of 59
Postmortem daguerreotype of a young child
1854 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Record Number: 5801, Collection: Cased Photographs Collection [3139]
LL/44538
38 of 59
Post mortem portrait of a baby
1850s (ca)
Daguerreotype
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/64755
39 of 59
Arthur Holland, Post-Mortem
1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Chrysler Museum of Art
Museum purchase, Object number: 88.174
LL/116999
40 of 59
Post mortem portrait
n.d.
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
Location and source information requested
LL/53331 [Further details available]
41 of 59
Post mortem portrait of white-haired man, supine
1857 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
6.9 x 8 cm
George Eastman Museum
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2003.1178.0003
LL/75598
42 of 59
Vanité. Un homme post-mortem, un autre fixant l'objectif du photographe
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
6.7 x 8.7 cm
Pierre Bergé & Associés
Une histoire particulière de la photographie Collection de Monsieur et Madame X, 19 March 2015, Lot: 24
LL/58159 [Further details available]
43 of 59
A grieving woman with her dead child
n.d.
Daguerreotype
Burns Americana
LL/62740 [Further details available]
44 of 59
[Mrs. Thomas Ustick Walter and Her Deceased Child]
1846 (ca)
Daguerreotype
4 11/16 x 3 1/2 ins (image) 5 15/16 x 4 5/8 x 5/8 ins (case)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005, Accession Number:2005.100.870
LL/92017
45 of 59
Untitled (Two Boys Holding a Deceased Baby)
1850
Daguerreotype
Art Institute of Chicago
The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, purchased with funds provided by The Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust, Reference Number: 2019.589
LL/114536
46 of 59
Post-mortem, possibly a catholic nun
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
9.1 x 6.8 cm
George Eastman Museum
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 1994.1418.0001
LL/74682
47 of 59
A post mortem portrait of a child
n.d.
Daguerreotype
Private collection of James V. Burke
LL/105674
48 of 59
A post mortem portrait of a child
n.d.
Daguerreotype
Private collection of James V. Burke
LL/105659
49 of 59
Child laid out with violets
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, with applied color
5 x 6.7 cm (image)
George Eastman Museum
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, ex-collection Walter A. Johnson, 2010.1300.0002
LL/75700
50 of 59
Post-mortem portrait of a young child with her wrists tied together
n.d.
Daguerreotype
Private collection of Josh Taylor
LL/116313
51 of 59
Untitled (Post Mortem Portrait of a Girl)
1855
Daguerreotype
Art Institute of Chicago
The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, purchased with funds provided by The Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust, Reference Number: 2019.587
LL/114489
52 of 59
Parents posing with deceased infant
1845 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
6.5 x 8.9 cm (image)
George Eastman Museum
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, ex-collection Walter A. Johnson, 2010.1300.0003
LL/75701
53 of 59
Deceased child held by excised woman
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
6.9 x 5.7 cm
George Eastman Museum
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, ex-collection Walter A. Johnson, 2010.1300.0030
LL/75705
54 of 59
Deceased child with Measles spots
1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, with applied color
5.6 x 6.8 cm (image) 10.1 x 11.7 x 1.4 cm (overall)
George Eastman Museum
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, ex-collection Walter A. Johnson, 2010.1302.0044
LL/75707
55 of 59
Baby With Three Pink Roses, Post-Mortem
1860
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
Chrysler Museum of Art
Museum purchase, Object number: 88.155
LL/116995
56 of 59
[Postmortem Portrait of a Child]
1850s (mid)
Daguerreotype, with applied color
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH)
Museum purchase funded by Krista and Michael Dumas, Object Number: 2015.493
LL/112119
57 of 59
Mourning pin of deceased young man
1860 (ca)
Daguerreotype, mounted on silver brooch
2.7 x 3.7 cm (image) 3.5 x 4.8 x 0.8 cm (overall)
George Eastman Museum
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, ex-collection Walter A. Johnson, 2010.1301.0024
LL/75706
58 of 59
The Latest Discovery of Prof. J. H. Whitehurst
1850, 27 December
Newspaper advert
Internet - Original source ill-defined
LL/78464 [Further details available]
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