Strange Antique Photo with Child in White antique cat needlepoint This is one of the

This is one of the largest among a handful of small seaweed pressings I purchased together

The drawing was done on an semi-translucent onion skin type paper in graphite

sort of lumpy nose and partially open red painted mouth

I have to think perhaps abandoned before completion

Dominoes measure 1 3/4" x 7/8" x 1/4"

Strange Antique Photo with Child in White antique cat needlepoint This is one of theI had not made the association when I purchased this photo, but many of you responded to it by suggesting it was a post mortem photo, with deceased child at center. An expert who deals in mourning and funerary antiques tells me that posing a deceased child in this manner would be exceedingly rare; rather, children in post mortem photos would be posed in a very reverent manner. In any case, this child's layers of all white, setting her (I assume) in