Date request please - Lincolnshire photo, name unknown

[maidmarion]

Hi

Please can someone give a date for this CDV of a mother and child.

[maidmarion]

Hi Can anyone assist at all please.
All help most appreciated.
maidmarion

[Zefiro]

It seems to me that the child might be deceased. (so probably Victorian)
(but you'll have to wait until the experts put a real date to this)

[jim1]

Mid-late 1870's.

[maidmarion]

It seems to me that the child might be deceased. (so probably Victorian)
(but you'll have to wait until the experts put a real date to this)

Thank you for your post.
I had a rough idea of the date but wanted something more accurate than my guesstimate!
I don’t think the child is deceased. I wonder what the experts think?

[maidmarion]

Mid-late 1870's.

Thank you jim1.

I’d also be interested in views that the child could be deceased as suggested by Zefiro plus why the woman’s dress appears to be unbuttoned.

Thanks
maidmarion

[jim1]

I don't think this is a p.m. photo.
The pose doesn't look right.
Usually children are posed lying down either in a crib or mother's arms.
You do see some where children are posed to appear alive but I don't think this is one.
There was a practice I believe of some photographers giving problematic children
a drop of Laudanum to quiet them down but I don't know how common that was.
Skirts usually didn't come with pockets so where does one put one's hanky?

[maidmarion]

I don't think this is a p.m. photo.
The pose doesn't look right.
Usually children are posed lying down either in a crib or mother's arms.
You do see some where children are posed to appear alive but I don't think this is one.
There was a practice I believe of some photographers giving problematic children
a drop of Laudanum to quiet them down but I don't know how common that was.
Skirts usually didn't come with pockets so where does one put one's hanky?

Thank you for the great information jim1.
A hanky! Here’s me wondering if she’d been breast feeding!

[maidmarion]

Would you be able to say if the child is a boy or a girl please?