Strange Antique Photo with Child in White antique cat needlepoint The drawing was done on

The drawing was done on an semi-translucent onion skin type paper in graphite

This wonderful old frame has some loss around the edges of the heart on top

my favorite part being the yellow webbed feet against green painted base but the expressionistically done black detailing on the wings is pretty good too

and the text on some pages (not the alphabets) is somewhat light

and I must say it makes me pretty happy just to look at them

Strange Antique Photo with Child in White antique cat needlepoint The drawing was done onI had not made the association when I purchased this photo, but many of you responded to it by suggesting it was a post mortem photo, with deceased child at center. An expert who deals in mourning and funerary antiques tells me that posing a deceased child in this manner would be exceedingly rare; rather, children in post mortem photos would be posed in a very reverent manner. In any case, this child's layers of all white, setting her (I assume) in