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  2. Post-mortem photography - Wikipedia

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    Post-mortem photograph of Emperor Frederick III of Germany, 1888. Post-mortem photograph of Brazil's deposed emperor Pedro II, taken by Nadar, 1891.. The invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 made portraiture commonplace, as many of those who were unable to afford the commission of a painted portrait could afford to sit for a photography session.

  3. Mourning portraits - Wikipedia

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    Mourning portrait of K. Horvath-Stansith, née Kiss, artist unknown, 1680s A Child of the Honigh Family on its Deathbed, by an unknown painter, 1675-1700. A mourning portrait or deathbed portrait is a portrait of a person who has recently died, usually shown on their deathbed, or lying in repose, displayed for mourners.

  4. Cabinet card - Wikipedia

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    Whatever the name, the popular print format joined the photograph album as a fixture in the late 19th-century Victorian parlor. The reverse side of the card as seen above. Early in its introduction, the cabinet card ushered in the temporary disuse of the photographic album which had come into existence commercially with the carte de visite ...

  5. File:Post-mortem portrait of Albert, Prince Consort.jpg

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    English: Posthumous photograph of Prince Albert, the Prince Consort lying on his death bed in the Blue Room, Windsor Castle. Commissioned by Queen Victoria and taken from left side profile, it shows the Prince's body covered by bed sheets and with a bandage wrapped around his head supporting his lower jaw.

  6. Elizabeth Stride - Wikipedia

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    [n 7] Phillips's official post-mortem documents state: The body was lying on the near side, with the face turned toward the wall, the head up the yard and the feet toward the street. The left arm was extended and there was a packet of cachous in the left hand. ... The right arm was over the belly; the back of the hand and wrist had on it ...

  7. John Anster Fitzgerald - Wikipedia

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    John Anster Christian Fitzgerald (1819 [1] – 1906) was a Victorian era fairy painter and portrait artist. [2] He was nicknamed "Fairy Fitzgerald" for his main genre. Many of his fairy paintings are dark and contain images of ghouls, demons, and references to drug use; his work has been compared to the surreal nightmare-scapes of Hieronymus ...

  8. Morgue - Wikipedia

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    Latin phrase "de mortuis nihil nisi bene" ("Of the dead, say nothing but good") written at the old morgue of Eura Church in Eura, Finland. The term mortuary dates from the early 14th century, from Anglo-French mortuarie, meaning "gift to a parish priest from a deceased parishioner," from Medieval Latin mortuarium, noun use of neuter of Late Latin adjective mortuarius "pertaining to the dead ...

  9. Catherine Eddowes - Wikipedia

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    Catherine Eddowes (14 April 1842 – 30 September 1888) was the fourth of the canonical five victims of the notorious unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, who is believed to have killed and mutilated a minimum of five women in the Whitechapel and Spitalfields districts of London from late August to early November 1888.