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| William Henry Fox Talbot Scene in a Library ca. 1844 salted paper print Yale University Art Gallery |
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| William Henry Fox Talbot Group on a Lawn beside a Church with Baskets of Firewood and Garden Produce (probably for charitable distribution) 1845 salted paper print Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson The Birdcage (Two Sisters) ca. 1845 photogravure from calotype negative Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
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| David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson James Fillans and his Daughters ca. 1845 photogravure from calotype negative Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
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| Richard Beard Portrait of Charles John Canning, Earl Canning ca. 1845 daguerreotype National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| William Edward Kilburn Portrait of singer Jenny Lind with Marietta Alboni, Countess Pepoli 1848 hand-colored daguerreotype National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Southworth & Hawes Portrait of Josiah Johnson Hawes in Fanciful Alpine Setting ca. 1850 hand-colored daguerreotype Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Rufus J. Anson Daguerreotypist with Camera ca. 1850 hand-colored daguerreotype Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Anonymous Photographer Man posed before Arctic Panorama ca. 1850 daguerreotype Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Anonymous Photographer Sisters ca. 1850 hand-colored daguerreotype Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Auguste Vacquerie Portrait of Victor Hugo 1853 salted paper print Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Roger Fenton Lady Harriet Hamilton as Lady Jane Grey 1854 albumenized salt print Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Anonymous Photographer Three Siblings 1854 hand-colored daguerreotype Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Lucy and Charlotte Bridgeman Portrait of Lady Howe ca. 1855 albumen print Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Jean-Baptiste Frenet Mère et son Fils au Jardin ca. 1855 salted paper print Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Calvert Richard Jones Group on the Lawn of a Country House ca. 1855 albumen print Indianapolis Museum of Art |
A rumor of incredible events
awaits us here: that Helenus, the son
of Priam, is a king of Grecian cities,
that he has won the wife and scepter of
Pyrrhus, Achilles' son; that once again
Andromache is given to a husband
of her own country. And I was amazed.
My heart burned with extraordinary longing
to speak to him, to learn of such great happenings.
Just then – when I had left the harbor and
my boat, drawn up along the beaches – there,
within a grove that stood before the city,
alongside waves that mimed the Simois,
Andromache was offering to the ashes
a solemn banquet and sad gifts, imploring
the Shade of Hector's empty tomb that she
had raised out of a green turf with double altars
and consecrated as a cause for tears.
– Aeneas discovers Hector's widow, Andromache, in exile, from Book III of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)