The Mourners, 1/4th-Plate Daguerreotype, Circa 1853
© Ann Longmore-Etheridge Collection.
This incredible mourning image has been deaccessioned from the Mirror Image Gallery collection and moved to mine. Thank you, Mitch, for allowing me to become the new caretaker.
The image is unmarked, although the previous owner feels it may be Southworth and Hawes. It shows a mother (although some think she may be his sister) and son dressed in full morning, presumably for her husband and his father. The young man has a extremely wide crape band on his tall top hat, which indicates that his loss was of someone quite close to him (probably his father), while the mother/sister wears a black-veiled bonnet. The image was clearly made in winter, and both are dressed in black outer wear, although the mother wears a lighter color fur that is almost certainly a tippet that is a separate piece from the coat. The fur at her wrists are cuffs attached to the kid gloves.
I have seen this image being touted as an example of "paid mourners," but this is not the case and was rarely done in the Victorian era. I have also seen this photo credited to a museum that I have no connection with. It is not in any museum, but in my physical custody.
The Mourners, 1/4th-Plate Daguerreotype, Circa 1853
© Ann Longmore-Etheridge Collection.
This incredible mourning image has been deaccessioned from the Mirror Image Gallery collection and moved to mine. Thank you, Mitch, for allowing me to become the new caretaker.
The image is unmarked, although the previous owner feels it may be Southworth and Hawes. It shows a mother (although some think she may be his sister) and son dressed in full morning, presumably for her husband and his father. The young man has a extremely wide crape band on his tall top hat, which indicates that his loss was of someone quite close to him (probably his father), while the mother/sister wears a black-veiled bonnet. The image was clearly made in winter, and both are dressed in black outer wear, although the mother wears a lighter color fur that is almost certainly a tippet that is a separate piece from the coat. The fur at her wrists are cuffs attached to the kid gloves.
I have seen this image being touted as an example of "paid mourners," but this is not the case and was rarely done in the Victorian era. I have also seen this photo credited to a museum that I have no connection with. It is not in any museum, but in my physical custody.