Beautiful 1840s mourning lithograph. This is the same lithograph seen behind the woman in the source image.
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Beautiful 1840s mourning lithograph. This is the same lithograph seen behind the woman in the source image.
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Good photo, but she doesn’t look all that sad.
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No, she doesn’t look sad. The lithograph is probably a couple, few years older than the daguerreotype, so I think the dag was possibly a remembrance / anniversary of death photo, and not taken to commemorate a very recent death.
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