.. we promise not to knowingly post any Post Mortem Victorian portraits on here. What you have to understand about the Victorians (1837 to 1bout 1900) is that they embraced technology and then did weird stuff with it.. like build a successful commuter hot air balloons, and then try to make a ship run on hot air like the one in 1855 that had to be towed back to land.
They also did strange things with their new synthetic dyes, like make a green out of arsenic that killed the wearer, or her dance partner or anyone who touched her sweat.
(Sketch & photo: after discovering the dangers of “Arsenic Green”, much fun was made of it by cartoonists. This is a real museum sample of the same; hopefully in an airtight case)