Antique Post Mortem Glass Plate Negative with Baby and Mother primitive sign with screw clasp

with screw clasp

with original surface

reminding one of a terrific expressionistic woodcut

The way this one has aged amplifies all that makes her great I think

whose right arm moves up and down to raise or lower his crop

Antique Post Mortem Glass Plate Negative with Baby and Mother primitive sign with screw claspA beautiful, moving glass plate negative post mortem photograph, with the expression on the face of the mother (best seen in digital positive) just devastating. The casket itself is shrouded in fabric, and the hands of the child clasped before her as she lies. My photos of this are not great (not scanned, just photographed in my own makeshift way, yielding some red along one edge in one photo and some uneven lighting), but the image appears sharp and