Victorian mourning apparel was complete…

… and prescribed from the day forward to which Prince Albert of England died.  Of note is – this is a PHOTOGRAPH!!  Common by the 1890’s, but very new in the 1840’s…

(Photo:  all of Queen Victoria and Albert’s daughters, in a typical Victorian portrait, pose around a bust of their recently deceased father.  We have seen the same thing in Napoleon’s era, where the women posed with statues of brothers, uncles, fathers, and military men in painted portraits).