Edited: in response to several immediate queries – no, I don’t think for one second that this is actually a photograph of Queen Victoria!
This strange photograph was emailed to me recently by Carol M., who had bought it from someone who believed it to be a post mortem image. Carol was unsure but bought it anyway, out of curiosity.
This was my reply to her initial enquiry:
My instinct is that it isn’t post mortem, because the lady’s face appears to have a reasonable amount of muscle tone. However she is rather slumped in the chair, which give weight to the theory that she’s dead.What niggles me about it is that it looks almost as if the photographer has attempted to set up a Queen Victoria lookalike. Even in the early days of photography, people were not averse to faking images (and also editing them after processing).
Which is where you come in, dear readers. What do you think…Dead, or Not?!
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