Monday, January 22, 2024

Visual Relics (1880-1890)

Anonymous Photographer
Authentic Skull of the painter Raphael
(adorned with Laurel)

ca. 1880
carbon print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Anonymous Photographer
Lace
ca. 1880
cyanotype
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Anonymous Photographer
Scene in a Wax Museum
ca. 1880
albumen silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Kazumasa Ogawa
Two Young Women
ca. 1880
hand-colored albumen silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Arthur K. Syer
Group Portrait, Sydney, Australia
ca. 1880
albumen silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Hiram Jacoby
Funerary Floral Arrangement
ca. 1880
albumen silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Fratelli Alinari
Palazzo d'Oro, Venice
ca. 1880
albumen silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Kimbei Kusakabe
Couple with Cabinet Photograph
and Ghost in the Background

ca. 1880
hand-colored albumen silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Kimbei Kusakabe
Vegetable Peddler
ca. 1885
hand-colored albumen silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Napoleon Sarony
Mrs Langtry
1882
albumen print
(carte de visite)
Yale University Art Gallery

Thomas Eakins
Shad Fishermen hauling Net at Gloucester, New Jersey
ca. 1881
cyanotype
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Thomas Eakins
Young Model in the Studio
ca. 1883
gelatin silver print
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Thomas Eakins
Young Model in the Studio
ca. 1883
gelatin silver print
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Thomas Eakins
Studies of James L. Jackson
ca. 1883
albumen silver prints
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Thomas Eakins
Motion Study - Boy Jumping
1884
gelatin silver print
(stroboscopic photograph)
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Frederick Hollyer
Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley
ca. 1890
platinum print
National Portrait Gallery, London

Andromache mourns deeply at our last
leavetaking, bringing robes adorned with threads
of gold, a Phrygian mantle for my son –
she does not yield in doing honor – weighting
Ascanius with woven gifts, then tells him:
'Receive these, too, my boy: memorials
of my own handiwork; and let them serve
as witness to Andromache's long love
as wife of Hector. Take with you these last
gifts of your people – you, the only image
that still is left of my Astyanax:
so did he bear his eyes, his hands, his face;
so would he now be entering his youth, 
were he alive, his years the same as yours.'

– Andromache addresses Ascanius, from Book III of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)