Art of Mourning

View of the “Art of Mourning” exhibition at the Museum of Morbid Anatomy, 2014-2015. The wall and case shown in this photograph includes images of a mother holding a dead child, children and adults and coffins, and other memorial photographs. Many of the daguerreotypes in the case come from the collection of Stanley Burns, MD, a collector of photographs related to the Victorian art of mourning subject who has published several books on the


Created 20 January 2015