File:Unidentified Photographer - Post-Mortem on Pillow, Vertical - 2003.294 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif
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[edit]Post-Mortem on Pillow, Vertical
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Unidentified Photographer |
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Post-Mortem on Pillow, Vertical |
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| Object type | photograph | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Children have always been particularly cherished subjects for photography. Portraits were made to preserve the memory of their stages of growth and, in an age when long-distance travel was rare, to share with faraway relatives. And, for a sadder reason: in 1840 an estimated one-third of children died before age five. Photography offered grieving parents the opportunity to immortalize their children’s features. This tragic genre of photographs, later called “post-mortems,” often depicts the children in fine clothing, laying down with eyes shut, as if merely napping. |
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| Date | circa 1850 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Ambrotype, tinted, sixth plate | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Image: 7 x 8.3 cm (2 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.); Case: 8 x 9.3 cm (3 1/8 x 3 11/16 in.); Matted: 48.3 x 61 cm (19 x 24 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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2003.294 |
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| Place of creation | America, 19th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.294 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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