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The Mourning of Motherhood

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Photographic works , The Mourning of Motherhood, image of the Barlow Memorial which can be found in Bradford's Undercliffe Cemetery. It depicts a reclining mother holding a small baby in her arms, which commemorates Anne Wagstaff Barlow (1834-1867) and her daughter Sarah Elizabeth who survived just a few weeks after her birth in 1859.

The photographic image is framed in old Victorian wood , with added Dried plant stems from Undercliffe cemetery. Painted Black in regards to the mourning period of which the victorians used to show mourning through the thickness of the frame within a mourning card.