Charlotte Spaulding Albright Untitled (Branches over Stream) ca. 1908 platinum print Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
Wilbur Heber Porterfield Grecian Sculptures in Buffalo - Caryatids at the Albright Art Gallery ca. 1909 gelatin silver print Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
Wilbur Heber Porterfield Albright Art Gallery - West Approach ca. 1909 carbon print Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
Frank Eugene Adam and Eve ca. 1910 photogravure Denver Art Museum |
Imogen Cunningham Eve Repentant 1910 gelatin silver print Yale University Art Gallery |
Imogen Cunningham The Vision 1910 gelatin silver print Yale University Art Gallery |
Eugène Atget Interior of Monsieur T., Merchant, rue Montaigne, Paris 1910 albumen silver print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
Eugène Atget Atget's Desk ca. 1910 gelatin silver print (printed by Berenice Abbott after 1927) Yale University Art Gallery |
Karl Struss Untitled 1910 platinum print Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
Karl Struss Penn Station, New York 1911 platinum print Yale University Art Gallery |
Augustus Jackson Thibaudeau Portrait of a Young Girl ca. 1910 platinum print Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
Augustus Jackson Thibaudeau Seated Woman in Classical Garb ca. 1912 platinum print Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
E.J. Bellocq Storyville Portrait, New Orleans ca. 1912 modern gelatin silver print from glass-plate negative National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
E.J. Bellocq Storyville Portrait, New Orleans ca. 1912 modern gelatin silver print from glass-plate negative Denver Art Museum |
Edward R. Dickson Branches over a Pool ca. 1912 platinum print Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
Edward R. Dickson Through the Trees ca. 1912 platinum print Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
A new dawn lights the earth with Phoebus' lamp
and banishes damp shadows from the sky
when restless Dido turns to her heart's sharer:
"Anna, my sister, what dreams make me shudder?
Who is this stranger guest come to our house?
How confident he looks, how strong his chest
and arms! I think – and I have cause – that he
is born of gods. For in the face of fear
the mean must fall. What fates have driven him!
What trying wars he lived to tell! Were it not
my sure, immovable decision not
to marry anyone since my first love,
turned traitor, when he cheated me by death,
were I not weary of the couch and torch,
I might perhaps give way to this one fault.
For I must tell you, Anna, since the time
Sychaeus, my poor husband, died and my
own brother splashed our household gods with blood,
Aeneas is the only man to move
my feelings, to overturn my shifting heart."
– Dido begins to love Aeneas, from Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)