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“She is not dead, but sleepeth”: Post-mortem Photography of Children in Victorian Britain Brittany Hudak, Ph.D. Candidate Case Western Reserve University.

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1 “She is not dead, but sleepeth”: Post-mortem Photography of Children in Victorian Britain Brittany Hudak, Ph.D. Candidate Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Museum of Art

2 Nineteenth-century engraving after Joshua Reynolds, Penelope Boothby, originally painted 1788.

3 Sir John Everett Millais, Cherry Ripe, 1870, oil on canvas, Makins collection.

4 Thomas Banks, Monument to Penelope Boothby, 1793, marble, Ashbourne Cathedral.

5 Francis Chantrey, The Sleeping Children (Monument to the Robinson Children), 1817, marble, Lichfield Cathedral.

6 Unknown maker, Post-mortem of Unidentified Child on Couch, ca. 1860s, carte-de-visite, Private Collection.

7 Unknown maker, Post-mortem of Unidentified Child in Studio, ca. 1860s, carte-de-visite, Private Collection.

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9 Unknown maker, Post-mortem of Child on Couch, inscribed: Caroline Mary Adye(?), 1862, carte-de-visite, Private Collection.

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11 Lawrence Lowe, St. John’s Wood (London), Post-mortem of Mary G. Lamb, 1860, inscribed Mary G. Lamb, 1860, carte-de-visite, Private Collection.

12 Henderson Studios, New Cross (London), Post-mortem of Unidentified Child in Studio, ca. 1860s, carte-de-visite, Private Collection.

13 CONSOLATION BOOKS Our Children’s Rest, 1863 The Folded Lamb, 1852 Infants Asleep in Jesus, 1855

14 Unknown maker, Post-mortem of Unidentified Child on Couch, dated 1860, hand-tinted stereoview, Private Collection.

15 William Pownall, Dukinfield Mall (Manchester), Post-mortem of Unidentified Child in Chair, ca. 1860s, carte-de-visite, Private Collection.

16 Sir John Everett Millais, My Second Sermon, 1863, oil on canvas, Guildhall Art Gallery.

17 William Pownall, Dukinfield Mall (Manchester), Post-mortem of Unidentified Child in Chair, ca. 1860s, carte-de-visite, Private Collection.


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