Untitled (postmortem infant portrait with mother) by Unidentified Artist | saved.works

Untitled (postmortem infant portrait with mother) by Unidentified Artist

Untitled (postmortem infant portrait with mother)

Unidentified Artist

c. 1850

Sixth plate daguerreotype

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A woman in a dark dress and white collar holds a baby swaddled in white fabric. The portrait is framed by a decorative gold border. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

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baby fabric centered composition shallow space frontal view woman infant portrait daguerreotype monochromatic gray sepia tones

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