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Civil War Baby Picks His Nose CDV Photo You can pick your friends, but you can't.. well you know! great Civil War era carte de visite photograph with 2 cent George Washington tax stamp. We at Tear Drop Memories have picked a winner!
 

She's Still Dead Victorian Carte De Visite 1870c Rare antique photo image of a rather inetresting elderly lady. Photorapher E. Furst phot on obverse and address 17 rue de Feltre en face musee Maison Sechez Desbois Nantes tou les cliches sont conserves. A Post Mortem Princess ? Note the Four Hearts return label. I can only guess the manufacturers warranty was up.

Tear Drop Memories offers fine Postmortem photography, rare funeral collectibles and interesting cemetery art and death related books. Please visit our other two Tias web shops ; North Fork Pets And Antiques, a great shop for antique Victorian bird cages and vintage animal collectibles and Maidens Memoirs, the place for old Love letters, Victorian scrap books and vintage diaries. Email us for our phone number we are dying to hear from you!

The play is the tragedy man and it's hero the conqueror worm Edgar Allen Poe
 

Rev. Payne Memorial CDV 1860's Reverend Payne tribute photo.
Mr and Mrs Fish photographers Leicester England.
Size: Carte de Visite
 

Post Mortem Carte De Visite 1870c Victorian postmortem photograph , this interesting antique image is an unusual raised oval matted in the c.d.v. photo. Photographer Ch. Herbert Rue du Rampant 7 Beauvais, Clermont, Gournay, Meru, Breteuil, Grandvilliers, Creil.

Tear Drop Memories offers fine Postmortem photography, rare funeral collectibles and interesting cemetery art and death related books. Please visit our other two Tias web shops ; North Fork Pets And Antiques, a great shop for antique Victorian bird cages and vintage animal collectibles and Maidens Memoirs, the place for old Love letters, Victorian scrap books and vintage diaries. Email us for our phone number we are dying to hear from you!

Death is only part of life,
As rain is only a part of the spring. A. Elliot
 

Shepherds Chief Mourner Dog Coffin Landseer Loyalty! The Old Shepherds Chief Mourner was an oil on canvas painted in 1837 by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer. This is a rare funeral CDV photo engraving of this famous work, circa 1873.Shepherd's crook and hat cast aside, this Collie canine companion sits by his dead master straw covered casket. Fine Carte De Visite.

Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and Charles Dickens favorite artist, he exhibited in Paris, The Louvre, The Fine Arts Museums Of San Francisco FAMSF, The Wade Collection and several major private collections from engraving, Landseer was the most famous pet dog artist of the Victorian era. Born in March 7 1802 and studying with Hayden, he attended the Royal Academy in London.

Son of Engraver John Landseer, his family was a major factor in his work. His brother Thomas Landseer, also a notable artist heavily promoted his engravings of Sir Edwins dogs establishing forever this artist in popular culture.

Animal portraits and sculptures were Landseer passions. His Love for hunting and the hounds and pets of the Scottish Highlands drove him forward. Yearly trips to Scotland became an obsession.

Landseer major works like his deer Stag Hunt painting, The Monarch Of the Glen, was only topped in fame by his masterfully designed sculpture, Lions at Nelson Monument in Trafalgar Square. As an early teen he was given a dead Lion from a Bestiary as zoos were called in Victorian times and learned anatomy from hours of dissection and sketching. Trafalgar was his last major work. 1866. His faithful dogs were a favorite theme. Many rescuing drowning victims, children, he identified with. The Landseer Newfoundland became the name associated with his drawings of lifesaving.

To Quote The Royal Collection, where many of his best work in the Victoria and Albert Museum; Landseer's choice of subject illustrates the Victorian obsession with the trappings of death, combined with is specialty the anthropomorphic representation of Dogs, with pathos and realism.

Years of stress alcohol, depression and drug abuse fueled his mental frailty. He was declared insane in 1872. He died in 1873, buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.

We have one other great Landseer dog C.D.V. please ask!

Tear Drop Memories offers fine Postmortem photography, rare funeral collectibles and interesting cemetery art and death related books. Please visit our other two Tias web shops ; North Fork Pets And Antiques, a great shop for antique Victorian bird cages and vintage animal collectibles and Maidens Memoirs, the place for old Love letters, Victorian scrap books, circus freak photos and vintage diaries. Email us for our phone number we are dying to hear from you!


Manufacturer: Landseer  

Shepherds Grave Collie Dog Landseer CDV Grieving, loss, a last good bye. Collie dog paws the graveyard earth for his master. Deeply emotional cemetery Carte De Visite By Sir Edwin Henry Landseer sketch from circa 1830. this great dog image is likely an engraving made brother Thomas landseer of Edwin's famous canine, about 1873.

Favorite of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and Charles Dickens favorite artist, he exhibited in Paris, The Louvre, The Fine Arts Museums Of San Francisco FAMSF, The Wade Collection and several major private collections from engraving, Landseer was the most famous pet dog artist of the Victorian era. Born in March 7 1802 and studying with Hayden, he attended the Royal Academy in London.

Son of Engraver John Landseer, his family was a major factor in his work. His brother Thomas Landseer, also a notable artist heavily promoted his engravings of Sir Edwins dogs establishing forever this artist in popular culture.

Animal portraits and sculptures were Landseer passions. His Love for hunting and the hounds and pets of the Scottish Highlands drove him forward. Yearly trips to Scotland became an obsession.

Landseer major works like his deer Stag Hunt painting, The Monarch Of the Glen, was only topped in fame by his masterfully designed sculpture, Lions at Nelson Monument in Trafalgar Square. As an early teen he was given a dead Lion from a Bestiary as zoos were called in Victorian times and learned anatomy from hours of dissection and sketching. Trafalgar was his last major work. 1866. His faithful dogs were a favorite theme. Many rescuing drowning victims, children, he identified with. The Landseer Newfoundland became the name associated with his drawings of lifesaving.

To Quote The Royal Collection, where many of his best work in the Victoria and Albert Museum; Landseer's choice of subject illustrates the Victorian obsession with the trappings of death, combined with is specialty the anthropomorphic representation of Dogs, with pathos and realism.

Years of stress alcohol, depression and drug abuse fueled his mental frailty. He was declared insane in 1872. He died in 1873, buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.

We have one other great Landseer dog C.D.V. please ask.


Tear Drop Memories offers fine Postmortem photography, rare funeral collectibles and interesting cemetery art and death related books. Please visit our other two Tias web shops ; North Fork Pets And Antiques, a great shop for antique Victorian bird cages and vintage animal collectibles and Maidens Memoirs, the place for old Love letters, Victorian scrap books, circus freak photos and vintage diaries. Email us for our phone number we are dying to hear from you!



Manufacturer: Landseer  

19th Century Knights Templar Funeral Cortege Clan like pall bearer hooded knights portage a golden casket through the streets of old Napoli Victorian era as small dog looks on. Carte De Visite image with strong color. Numbered 2775. Made by George Sommer photographer Atelier Monte di Dio Naples.

We have many other fraternal funeral related items here including stock # ZM50 a rare Italian Templar funeral procession.

Tear Drop Memories offers fine Post Mortem photography, rare funeral collectibles and interesting cemetery art, vintage Halloween and death related books. Please visit our other two TIAS web shops ; North Fork Pets And Antiques, a great shop for antique Victorian bird cages and vintage Dog, animal collectibles and Maidens Memoirs, the place for old Love letters, Victorian scrap Books, vintage diaries and circus freak photos. Email us for our phone number we are dying to hear from you!

 

Easter Morning Ultimate Memorial C.D.V. 1880c Flower garland covered mourning cross Carte De Visite antique photo.


Tear Drop Memories offers fine Post Mortem photography, rare funeral collectibles and interesting cemetery art, vintage Halloween and death related books.
Please visit our other two TIAS web shops ; North Fork Pets And Antiques, a great shop for antique Victorian bird cages and vintage Dog, animal collectibles and Maidens Memoirs, the place for old Love letters, Victorian scrap Books, vintage diaries and circus freak photos.
Email us for our phone number we are dying to hear from you!
Size: CDV
 

RARE Victorian Illusion Skull CDV Carte de Visite Skull trick image circa 1870.
Size: C.D.V.
 

Simply To Thy Cross I Cling 1870 Rock Of Ages marble sculpture C.D.V. photo of Simply to the Cross I cling.
Post Civil War Victorian circa 1870 carte photograph.
Size: Carte de Visite
 

Emperor Tewodros Theodorus Suicide CDV C.D.V. pen ink sketch of a man's head. Inscribed Theodorus, Emperor of Abyssinia. Sketched immediately after the capture of Magdala, 13, April 1868. by R. R. Holmes F.S.A, Archaeologist attached to the expedition". Below that it partially states: "To his Friend Stanley..." April 13, 1868 the Emperor of Ethiopia, Emperor Tewodros Theodorus committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. This suicide occurred during a battle between his loyal troops and army of Great Britain at Magdala. Henry M. Stanley, of Stanley and Livingston fame, traveled to Ethiopia as a correspondent for the New York Herald and he accompanied the British force that was led by Lt. Sir Robert Napier. Henry Stanley observed the death of emperor Tewodros. Just prior to his lead his men against a fruitless attack on the British who were attempting to capture him and the town of Magdala. The gates of the city fell and Tewodros was seen standing near a haystack. Two British soldiers observed him run behind the haystack and then they heard a shot. They found the emperor prostrate on the ground with the revolver still in his hand. He had shot himself in the mouth, the bullet exiting the back of his head.
This is an interesting CDV, circa late 1860-1870's. On the back of the CDV is handwritten in pencil,Theodore of Abyssinia, suicide 4/13/1868 at British Invasion. Interesting Colonial Africa Carte De Visite.

Tear Drop Memories offers fine Postmortem photography, rare funeral collectibles and interesting cemetery art and death related books. Please visit our other two Tias web shops ; North Fork Pets And Antiques, a great shop for antique Victorian bird cages and vintage animal collectibles and Maidens Memoirs, the place for old Love letters, Victorian scrap books and vintage diaries. Email us for our phone number we are dying to hear from you!


 

Hush Grampa's Asleep Post Mortem CDV Photograph 1870c Victorian Carte Di Visite photo of a beard bearing gent enjoyng eternal rest.The photographer name, John Nicholson of Franklin Indiana i printed on reverse and the name Mr Harris (?) is marked lightly in pencil. Clear image and nice condition make this 19th century old funeral image memento an lasting impression.

Death? What's it like? Remember the chicken at Treski's resturant? It's worse! Woody Allen, Love And Death.

Tear Drop Memories offers fine Postmortem photography, rare funeral collectibles and interesting cemetery art and death related books. Please visit our other two Tias web shops ; North Fork Pets And Antiques, a great shop for antique Victorian bird cages and vintage animal collectibles and Maidens Memoirs, the place for old Love letters, victorian scrap books and vintage diaries.