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| Lewis Carroll Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson 1857 albumen print National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Francis Frith Pyramids of Dashoor ca. 1858 albumen print Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Pierre Petit Madame Hippolyte Lucas 1858 salted paper print Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Anonymous Photographer Roses in a Glass Vase ca. 1860 albumen silver print Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Giorgio Sommer Neapolitan Scene ca. 1860 albumen silver print Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Stephen Thompson Venus de Milo at the Louvre ca. 1860 albumen silver print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| George Washington Wilson Mrs Donald Stewart and her Children 1861 albumen print National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron La Madonna Riposata (Resting in Hope) 1864 albumen silver print Brooklyn Museum |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron Queen Phillipa interceding for the Burghers of Calais ca. 1860 albumen silver print Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron Portrait of Julia Jackson (future mother of Virginia Woolf) 1864 albumen silver print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Oscar Gustave Rejlander Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1863 albumen print National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Oscar Gustave Rejlander Drapery and Figure Study ca. 1865 albumen print National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Pierre-Louis Pierson Countess Virginia Oldoini Verasis di Castiglione as Anne Boleyn before 1865 hand-colored albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Pierre-Louis Pierson Countess Virginia Oldoini Verasis di Castiglione as the Queen of Etruria before 1865 hand-colored albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Felice Beato Barbers ca. 1864 hand-colored albumen silver print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Alexander Gardner Lewis Powell, alias Payne, Conspirator in the Lincoln Assassination 1865 albumen silver print Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
"But we, our homeland burned, were carried over
strange seas, and we endured the arrogance
of Pyrrhus and his youthful insolence,
to bear him children in our slavery;
until he sought Hermione, the daughter
of Leda, and a Spartan wedding, handing
me to Helenus, a slave to a slave.
But then Orestes, goaded by his great
passion for his lost bride and fired by
the Furies of his crimes, surprises Pyrrhus
and cuts him down beside his father's altars.
At Pyrrhus' death a portion of his kingdom
passed on to Helenus, who named the plains
Chaonian – all the land Chaonia,
for Trojan Chaon – placing on the heights
a Pergamus and this walled Ilium.
But what winds and what fates have given you
a course to steer? What god has driven you,
unknowing, to our shores? Where is your boy
Ascanius – while Troy still stood, Creüsa
would carry him to you – does he still live
and feed upon the air? Is any care
for his lost mother still within the boy?
Do both his father and his uncle, Hector,
urge him to ancient courage, manliness?"
– Andromache describes recent events and questions Aeneas, from Book III of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)