Antique Post Mortem Glass Plate Negative with Baby and Mother Spanish Damascene painting to the right

painting to the right

Hansen's  work has been shown widely nationally and internationally

I would guess it dates to mid- to late 20th c

the hand-written message at top translates to "a big kiss to my dear Colette

with distance forever between them--a scenario in which she holds the power

Antique Post Mortem Glass Plate Negative with Baby and Mother Spanish Damascene painting to the rightA 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