The Victorian Death Portrait A Family Photo Guaranteed To Send Shivers Up Your Spine
At a glance, this image looks like an old photograph of five somewhat bored children posing for a family photo. And indeed, it is. However, it hides a certain macabre secret: the smallest child on the far left is actually dead and is propped up on a stand. To our modern standards, this seems rather creepy, but in the Victorian era, these ‘death portraits,’ as they became known, were very common....