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| 1. |  | McClees & Germon 1855 (ca) [A post-mortem portrait; young man three quarter length on a background of a white knit shawl with tassels.] 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 |
| 2. |  | Unidentified photographer 1850 (ca) A Postmortem Portrait of an Elderly Woman Daguerreotype 9.5 x 7.5 cm Musée d'Orsay © photo RMN, Hervé Lewandowski, PHO 2001 2 1 |
| 3. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. Post-mortem Daguerreotype, stereo Musée d'Orsay (C) RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski, Europeana Identifier: RMNDO000000295232 ; Pho2001-2-2 |
| 4. |  | Allevy 1856 Death Portrait of Doctor Amussat Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate George Eastman Museum Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer, 76:0168:0004 |
| 5. |  | Unidentified photographer 1850 (ca) Untitled [postmortem portrait of infant] 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 |
| 6. |  | S.L. Carlton n.d. Post mortem with quilt Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (46 / 43) 1/6 plate daguerreotype by Carleton, Portland Maine. His eagle imprint is on the burgundy velvet of the separated case. Outstanding coloration with great detail of the quilt on which the deceased child rests, giving this a vibrant character that recalls the life energy of the deceased child. This plate was shown in the film Crimson Peak (dir. Guillermo del Toro, 2015) |
| 7. |  | Carl Durheim 1852 Postmortem of a Child 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) |
| 8. |  | Félix Feuardent 1850 (ca) Portrait d'une petite fille morte Daguerreotype 7.2 x 5.9 cm Musée d'Orsay (C) RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski, Europeana Identifier: RMNDO000000278799 ; PHO1984-6 |
| 9. |  | Unidentified photographer 1850 (ca) My dead brother in his metallic coffin Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate Historical Society of Pennsylvania Record Number: 5641, Collection: Cased Photographs Collection [3139] Inscription text: (ink on paper tag): my Dead Brother / in his metalic [sic] / coffin Buried in / odd Fellows / cemetary. / Had a fall Hurt / his knee [recto]; (pencil on paper tag): Buried / 77 years / 36 / His Jacob / Noah / [illegible] |
| 10. |  | Unidentified Daguerreotypist 1855 (ca) Postmortem of a young child with eyes closed laid out on a white sheet and cushion Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate Historical Society of Pennsylvania Record Number: 5898, Collection: Cased Photographs Collection [3139] Postmortem portrait of Charles F. Turnbull. |
| 11. |  | McClees & Germon 1854 (ca) Postmortem daguerreotype of a young child Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate Historical Society of Pennsylvania Record Number: 5801, Collection: Cased Photographs Collection [3139] |
| 12. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. Post-mortem Daguerreotype of a little girl and her doll Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate Source requested [Further information sought] |
| 13. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. America postmortem of a child Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#21 / 91) |
| 14. |  | John Plumbe Jr. n.d. Portrait of an older woman post mortem Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#17 / 124) American Daguerreotype. |
| 15. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1845-1855 Post mortem portrait of an unknown woman Daguerreotype, Encased Rijksmuseum Copyright © Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (RP-F-F14379) |
| 16. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1845-1855 Post mortem portrait of an unknown woman Daguerreotype, Encased Rijksmuseum Copyright © Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (RP-F-F14381) |
| 17. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1845-1855 Post mortem portrait of an unknown woman Daguerreotype, Encased Rijksmuseum Copyright © Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (RP-F-F14377) |
| 18. |  | Unidentified photographer 1840-1855 An elderly man after his death. Daguerreotype Wellcome Collection Wellcome Library, London (L0041036, Library reference no.: Iconographic Collection 567728i) |
| 19. |  | Jaquith 1850 (ca) Rosaline Holmes Harrison (Mrs. S. Decatur Harrison) with dead baby Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate Historical Society of Pennsylvania Record Number: 6426, Collection: Batcheler, Hartshorne, and Sahlin families papers [3173] |
| 20. |  | Jaquith 1850 (ca) Rosaline Holmes Harrison (Mrs. Stephen Decatur Harrison) with baby before the funeral Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate Historical Society of Pennsylvania Record Number: 6441, Collection: Batcheler, Hartshorne, and Sahlin families papers [3173] |
| 21. |  | Unidentified photographer 1850s Untitled [postmortem infant portrait with mother] 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 |
| 22. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1839-1855 Portrait of a Woman Holding Baby Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, heightened 6.5 x 5.3 cm (plate, oval - sight) National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada (no. 34006), Purchased 1969 |
| 23. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. Mother holds deceased baby Daguerreotype Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (45 / 11) How do we know the baby is deceased and not sleeping? The floral arrangement is a clue. The young mother has a "resigned" expression; that is one of the most interesting aspects of the image. The baby, who has inherited her mother's face, has neither a feeling of rest nor of animation. This empty sadness gives this an expressive character that draws our interest beyond numerous more bland "post mortems." |
| 24. |  | Alphonse Le Blondel 1850 (ca) [Postmortem] 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 |
| 25. |  | Unidentified photographer 1852 Memoir of Robert Troup Paine: inside back cover, 1852 Daguerreotypes Harvard University Archives Shows 2 daguerretypes and lock of hair inset into back cover of Paine memorial volume. Paine, Robert Troup (n.d.) Paine, Mary Ann (1799-1852) Paine, Martyn (1794-1877) |
| 26. |  | Unknown (French) 1850 French Post Mortem Salt print Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm |
| 27. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. Post mortem ambrotype Ambrotype Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (46 / 48) |
| 28. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. Baby in coffin Tintype, 1/4 plate Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (47 / 79) |
| 29. |  | Unidentified photographer 1870 (ca) Memorial Still Life (Washington State) Tintype 7 x 5 in Paul Cava Fine Art Courtesy of Paul Cava Fine Art |
| 30. |  | Unidentified photographer 1880 (ca) Gravestone Marker - Portrait of Woman Tintype, 1/9 plate Charles Schwartz Ltd Courtesy of Charles Schwartz Ltd (www.cs-photo.com - #7375) Tintype portrait of a woman in gold, tin frame. This would have been used to mark a gravestone. |
| 31. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. Not Lost but Gone Before - "Little Willie" Tintype, memorial 2.25 x 3.5 in (image) 22 x 10 in (frame) Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#20 / 129) Beneath the image is the hand inscription "Little Willie" and printed inscription "Published and copyright secured by H. W. Dubois & Co., Fall River, Mass." The exterior of the frame measures 22" x 10". |
| 32. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. A young boy with his beach toys Tintype, 1/6 plate Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#17 / 156) It is a studio image with a beach scene backdrop. The velvet pad holds a lock of his hair in a blue ribbon. It also has an obituary announcement, "Died - In Brookfield Vt., November 4th of Diphtheria, Alvia, son of S. and S. P. Major, aged 10 years and 11 months." |
| 33. |  | Unidentified photographer 1861-1870 [Unidentified girl in mourning dress holding framed photograph of her father as a cavalryman with sword and Hardee hat] Tintype, 1/6th plate, hand-coloured 9.5 x 8.4 cm (case) Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Portraits, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-26863 (digital file from original item) Photo shows a girl holding a framed image of her father. Judging from her necklace, mourning ribbons, and dress, it is likely that her father was killed in the war. (Source: Matthew R. Gross and Elizabeth T. Lewin, 2010) |
| 34. |  | Unidentified photographer 1861-1865 [Unidentified woman wearing mourning brooch and displaying framed image of unidentifed soldier] Tintype, 1/6th plate, hand-coloured 12.5 x 11.2 cm (frame) Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Portraits, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-27192 (digital file from original item) |
| 35. |  | Unidentified photographer 1861-1865 [Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with saber and revolver in oval locket with chain of braided hair] Tintype, locket 5.6 x 4.8 cm (locket) Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Portraits, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-27493 (digital file from original item, photo) Many families followed Victorian mourning customs in the mid-1800s. Mourning periods varied based on one's relation to the deceased. While these periods were characterized mainly by mourning garb, photographs and jewelry, like this locket, also served as mementos of the deceased. (Source: Matthew R. Gross and Elizabeth T. Lewin, 2010) |
| 36. |  | Unidentified photographer 1861-1865 [Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with saber and revolver in oval locket with chain of braided hair] Tintype, locket 5.6 x 4.8 cm (locket) Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Portraits, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-27494 (digital file from original item, locket) Many families followed Victorian mourning customs in the mid-1800s. Mourning periods varied based on one's relation to the deceased. While these periods were characterized mainly by mourning garb, photographs and jewelry, like this locket, also served as mementos of the deceased. (Source: Matthew R. Gross and Elizabeth T. Lewin, 2010) |
| 37. |  | Unidentified photographer 1897 Alphonse Daudet on his death bed, Paris Source requested [Further information is being sought] |
| 38. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist n.d. Still life Stereo Private collection of Stuart Schneider |
| 39. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. Untitled [Memorial portrait] Carte de visite, trimmed Private collection |
| 40. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. Untitled {Memorial portrait of a lady] Carte de visite Private collection |
| 41. |  | Unidentified photographer 1876, 18 September (death) "In Memory of Polly, Dear Wife of George Basnett" Carte de visite, front and back Private collection |
| 42. |  | Arthur Lee (London) n.d. Post mortem portrait of a man Carte de visite Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (26 September 2009, #22 / 143) |
| 43. |  | G. Forsyth (Holl. Enzie) 1860 (ca) Deathbed portrait of a small boy drowned in a local pond in the north of Scotland Carte de visite Private collection of John Hannavy |
| 44. |  | Frederick Cornell (1833-1890) 1875-1890 Funerary photograph of a child against a white background, Sale, Victoria Albumen print, on card 16.3 x 10.5 cm National Library of Australia nla.pic-vn4582291 |
| 45. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1869 (ca) In Memoriam "Not dead gone before" Memorial mount with photograph Private collection of John Hannavy |
| 46. |  | A. Hing (Hong Kong) n.d. Memorial Cabinet card Cabinet card Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#17 / 194) |
| 47. |  | Erler - Sunbeam Gallery (Peoria, Ill.) 1890s (ca) Our Pet Cabinet card Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm |
| 48. |  | Unidentified photographer 1897 Portrait de Henri d'Orléans duc d'Aumale (1822-1897) sur son lit de mort le 7 mai 1897 au Zucco (Palerme) Photographic print 23.7 x 17.1 cm Musée Condé © direction des musées de France, © musée Condé, 1999, Inventory No: PH No 1020, Joconde: 00000106067 |
| 49. |  | Felice Beato 1869 (published) Head of Matsudaira, one of the Kamakura Assassins Book illustration Google Books R. Mounteney Jephson and Edward Pennell Elmhirst, 9th Regiment, Our Life in Japan. With illustrations from Photographs by Lord Walter Kerr, Signor Beato, and Native Japanese drawings, (London: Chapman and Hall, 1869), p.32 |
| 50. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist n.d. Post mortem card of a woman showing her lying in a coffin, she is surrounded by plants, mainly ferns and also a large candelabra. Boudoir card 7.25 x 5.5 in Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#13 / 80) |
| 51. |  | Memorial Supply Co. 1890, 27 May (died) Reverse of an "In Memoriam" cabinet card with an albumen print of Bishop O'Connor Cabinet card, photocollage, with albumen print Private collection Bishop O'Connor |
| 52. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist n.d. Post-mortem cabinet card of a baby dressed in a christening outfit and posed in an open coffin Cabinet card Capitol Gallery Courtesy of Capitol Gallery (Fall 2007 Auction, #76) |
| 53. |  | Unidentified photographer 1879 Napoléon Eugène Louis Bonaparte, Prince Imperial Albumen print, photomontage, on card mount 3 1/8 x 5 1/2 in (7.8 x 14.1 cm) (image) National Portrait Gallery - NPG Given by Terence Pepper, 2009, NPG x132828 |
| 54. |  | H. Hunter 1897-1913 Rest in Peace [Paterson and Zochonis trading company album (West Africa)] Black and white print 15 x 20 cm University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Picture shows a group of mourners in front of an open coffin in West Africa. From a two volume set of photographic albums containing 130 photographs. Photographs depict representatives of the Paterson Zochonis trading company and the various tribes they encountered in the course of trading in West Africa. |
| 55. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. Spirit photograph Tintype Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (46 / 71) |
| 56. |  | William H. Mumler n.d. Musical medium Carte de visite Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (47 / 118) A strip label on the verso identifies the subject as "Annie Lord Chamberlain, Musical Medium, showing spirit hands, instruments, etc." An arm plays the guitar on her lap. The objects above her head, the "instruments," are indistinct. |
| 57. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. The invisible spirit Cabinet card Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (47 / 157) Large label on the verso indicates "Obtained by Two Spiritualists in London… in 1895 and 1896. They were Richard Boursnell and J. Evans Sterling. This is No. 52, "Spirit of a lady unknown curiously robed in flowers. Empyreal light on the sitter." |
| 58. |  | London Stereoscopic Company 1850s (late) He is gone Stereocard Private collection of John Hannavy London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company |
| 59. |  | London Stereoscopic Company 1850s (late) He is gone Stereocard, detail Private collection of John Hannavy London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company |
| 60. |  | London Stereoscopic Company 1850s (late) The Last Prayer Stereocard Private collection of John Hannavy London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company |
| 61. |  | London Stereoscopic Company 1850s (late) The Last Prayer Stereocard, detail Private collection of John Hannavy London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company |
| 62. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. Spirit of Bernadette Carte de visite Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (47 / 121) This is supposedly Bernadette Soubirous whose vision of the Virgin Mary was the origin of the worship of Our Lady of Lourdes. The spirit blesses a boy asleep on a sofa in an alcove, his shoe at the foot. See "The Perfect Medium," p. 64. No imprint. |
| 63. |  | Robert H. Vance 1853-1854 (ca) Stereoscopic daguerreotype in a case, of a woman, probably dressed in mourning clothing Daguerreotypes, 1/9 plate, stereo 5.7 x 4.2 cm Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Call number: WA Photos 402, Image ID number: 1246092 Two ninth-plate daguerreotypes to form a stereoscopic pair. Quarter-plate thermoplastic case with Mascher viewer built in, imprinted "MASCHER'S IMPROVED STEREOSCOPE / PHILADA. / PATENT / MARCH 8TH 1853"; printed label in case, "FROM R. H. VANCE'S / DAGUERREAN ROOMS / SAN FRANCISCO, SACRAMENTO, & MARYSVILLE, / CAL." Imprint on case medallion, "Our Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name / but deliver us from evil / MATTHEW VI, 9". |
| 64. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. A memorial still life Autochrome 5 x 7 ins Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#23 / 153) |
| 65. |  | W. & D. Downey 1873, 25 January (published) Napoleon III. After his Death. Magazine illustration Creative Commons - Wikipedia R & E Taylor, after a photograph by Mssrs. Downey. The Illustrated London News, Jan. 25, 1873 |
| 66. |  | Chase's Daguerreotype Rooms 1846, 1 February Daguerreotype - In our advertising columns may be seen the card of Mr. Chase's Daguerreotype Roomsà Magazine page Google Books Published in The Journal of Health and Monthly Miscellany (Boston), Volume 1, No.2, February 1, 1846, p.60. Daguerreotype. In our advertising columns may be seen the card of Mr. Chase's Daguerreotype Rooms. We have visited these rooms, and examined his specimens. We were much pleased with every thing connected with this establishment. We advise all our readers, who wish to see themselves in nature's glass, or who have friends desirous of possessing their exact "image and superscription" when they may be absent, or dead, to visit Mr. Chase's rooms and he will do the work for them. He will do it well. |
| 67. |  | J.A. Whipple 1848 Daguerreotype Miniatures: John A. Whipple, 96 Washington Street Book page Google Books Published in "The Stranger's Guide in the City of Boston" (Boston: Andrews & Co., 1848), p.31. Daguerreotype Miniatures John A. Whipple 96 Washington St. Mr. Whipple stands among the foremost of living Daguerreotype Artists. He receives the patronage of the most distinguished citizens in our community, having established his reputation for accuracy, neatness and vividness of Daguerreotype Portraiture. A visit to his rooms at 96 Washington Street, will satisfy any one as to the amount of his business, as well as to the class of his patrons. He excels particularly in taking groups, and those who visited the last exhibition of the Mechanics' Fair, will remember well those rare specimens in this way, that were executed at the rooms of Mr. Whipple. Mr. Whipple has a copy of a picture taken by him of the Governor and Council. It embellishes his studio and attracts the admiration of all who visit it. He has much of the patronage of the three learned professions from all parts of New England, and many families are indebted to his unsurpassable skill for the most choice and natural pictures of themselves, joined in a domestic circle. The happy effect of assemblies thus naturally pictured forth, it is impossible to describe. And such memorials are assuredly invaluable, growing more and more so, as absence, or death, or tune, alters or diminishes the domestic circle. We commend the practice of having such pictures taken. How many there are who would pay fifty times the usual price of such pictures, could they but obtain the full likeness of their families, now scattered or thinned by death. In all the branches of the Daguerreotype profession, Mr. Whipple is prominently distinguished. He performs all that is possible in the art, and his terms are very moderate. |
| 68. |  | J.V.R. Schuyler (Ithaca, NY) 1853 The value of a perfect likeness should not be estimated by dollars and cents. Book page Google Books Published in ""Ithaca as it was and Ithaca as it is: with thoughts suggestive of the future" by Hermon Camp Goodwin (Ithaca, N.Y.: Andrus, Gauntlett & Company, 1853), p.40-41. In the Daguerrean Rooms of Mr. J. V. R. Schuyler, we recently noticed many familiar and well known features true types of the originals- His rooms are large and airy, well furnished, and decorated with splendid pictures Having both sky and side-lights, and all other facilities known to be favorable, to the art, we do not wonder at his furnishing daguerreotypes shadowing forth the smile of beauty and the glance of manhood's " living fire." Mr. Schuyler is an accomplished artist. He keeps a rich assortment of stock, among which may be seen some beautiful pearl cases, fit to hold within their embrace the portrait of the fairest and loveliest in the land His gallery is well supported, and the affable and courteous proprietor is realizing a handsome compensation for his labor and time. He has had much experience in his profession, and his natural taste and skill will doubtless continue to render his gallery as popular as his pictures are strikingly perfect. The value of a perfect likeness should not be estimated by dollars and cents. Our father, mother, brother and sister those have all, all departed. What would we not give for a type which would recall every feature of the lost and loved. There sits the mother mourning over the loss of her only child- it was a beautiful little gem of lovelines. But it is now cold; and inanimate. The pulse has ceased to beat, the eyes are closed forever, the lips, though slightly parted, will never again move in uttering words of childish simplicity. There is the marble brow and flaxen Hair, but that brow has been touched by death, and made livid, cold; and that glossy hair will no more hang in tasteful ringlets about that neck of alabaster. The little child is dead. O, what treasure would purchase of the mother the last, the only daguerreotype of her loved, lost-child ? She would not part with it for crowns or golden gems. |
| 69. |  | Marcus Aurelius Root 1853 Root's Daguerrean Gallery Magazine page Google Books The Christian Parlor Magazine, Volume 10, 1853, p.379. Root's Daguerrean Gallery. There is no place like this in New York for perfect daguerreotypes. Here is displayed a multitude of the most beautiful speeimens of this art, showing the perfection of Mr. Root's mode of taking them. This gentleman has placed in the Crystal Palace some forty or fifty pieces, which attract great attention, and will probably secure the first prize. Any one who has seen them cannot but admire the sharpness of the figure, the perfection of the drapery, and especially the remarkably clear and natural expression of the eye one of the most difficult attainments in this art. No higher testimony can be given to the exellence of Mr. Root's daguerreotypes than the constant press of business on his hands, his rooms being thronged every day with visitors. He succeeds admirably in taking the likenesses of children. And what mother would not love to preserve the infant features of her children to look upon in after years, especially should they be taken away by death. We have rarely seen a more beautiful illustration of this than in the following: Sweet child, that angel face must fade, As years shall come and go. For time doth ever mar the fair And bright of all below. But thy fond mother's jealous care Hath robbed the yawning tomb, And by the might of art, hath fixed For e'er thy youthful bloom. Within her sacred shrine there hangs In all its infant grace, On Root's unequaled, perfect plate, Her darling's glorious face. Then, mother of the blooming child, Trust not the fleeting hours, But, as this mother did by hers, Do thou at once by yours. Then, should the sudden dart of death Your loved one call away, You'd bless the hint by which you had The picture done to day, By Root, 363 Broadway. |
| 70. |  | Marcus Aurelius Root 1853 Root's Daguerrean Gallery - a poem on death Magazine page Google Books The Christian Parlor Magazine, Volume 10, 1853, p.379. Sweet child, that angel face must fade, As years shall come and go. For time doth ever mar the fair And bright of all below. But thy fond mother's jealous care Hath robbed the yawning tomb, And by the might of art, hath fixed For e'er thy youthful bloom. Within her sacred shrine there hangs In all its infant grace, On Root's unequaled, perfect plate, Her darling's glorious face. Then, mother of the blooming child, Trust not the fleeting hours, But, as this mother did by hers, Do thou at once by yours. Then, should the sudden dart of death Your loved one call away, You'd bless the hint by which you had The picture done to day, By Root, 363 Broadway. |
| 71. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1848, 12 March (Letter) Letter from Daniel Webster Book page Google Books Extracts from a letter from Daniel Webster to his son Mr. Fletcher Webster (March 12, 1848). This letter is published in George Ticknor Curtis Life of Daniel Webster (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1870), Volume II, Ch.XXXIV, p.322. Mr. Healy is painting a portrait from the daguerreotype; I have not seen it, but it is thought to be very good. I have been meditating upon something which I wish should be thought of. Edward was ten years old when I made the Hayne speech in the Senate. Why should not Mr. Healy make a picture of him, as of that age, from the daguerreotype, and from Miss Goodrich's little miniature, and place him at my feet? He was then no older than Daniel is now. … See Julia, and tell her what I propose about Edward's picture. [Major Edward Webster died in the 25th January 1848.] |
| 72. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1881 Photograph of the deceased on a grave at a cemetery in Yokohama, Japan Book page Google Books Captain S.H. Jones-Parry, My Journey Round the World via Ceylon, New Zealand, Australia, Torres Straits, China, Japan, and the United States, Two Volumes (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1881), Volume II, p.28-29 Next day I took advantage of seeing the gate open to stroll into the cemetery, a sweet, sunny spot, very well looked after. Pretty shrubs are dotted about here and there; and many a sorrowing relative will be cheered by knowing that their dear ones, buried in this distant land, are still cared for, and that their graves are hidden by lovely camellias, cherry and almond trees. The tombs in some cases were very quaint. On the headstone of one I noticed half an orange and a saucer, put, as I afterwards learnt, by some faithful Japanese or Chinese servant, a simple token of love and regard for the little one whose body rested beneath; it was the one touch of nature, and made me feel so sad and choky that I had to turn away. I love that nigger, as they stupidly call these men, for that act. Another had a bouquet with a Christmas card attached, placed reverently on the grassy mound. Another foreign one had a ghastly photograph of the deceased lying surrounded by his sorrowing friends and active servants; it was let into the headstone, and covered with glass, but was much faded by the action of the atmosphere. I confess I liked the bouquet and pretty flowers better. Some English and American tombs were handsome. Altogether I was pleasantly impressed with this spot, and felt that I should not mind being buried there myself. |
| 73. |  | Elliott & Fry 1917, 21 July Portraits of the bereaved Magazine page The Courtauld Institute of Art Copyright: Illustrated London News Ltd. All rights reserved, Gale Document Number: HN3100549957 Illustrated London News (London, England), Saturday, July 21, 1917; pg. 88; Issue 4083. In these days, when portraits often gain a mournful interest which makes them priceless to the bereaved friends of the subjects, Messrs. Elliott and Fry, the well-known photographers, of 55-56, Baker Street, W., have issued an illustrated little price list of various forms of their artistic productions, which they will send to applicants. Crayon and pastel drawings are included in the list. |