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| Peter Henry Emerson Haymaking in the Norfolk Broads 1885-86 photograph Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Hermann Günther Portrait of a Young Woman ca. 1868-80 albumen print Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| attributed to Fleming Baldwin Interior of Keep Castle at Hedingham ca. 1855-70 albumen print Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Anonymous French Photographer Still Life ca. 1870 carbon print Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
Sic Vita
I am a parcel of vain strivings tied
By a chance bond together,
Dangling this way and that, their links
Were made so loose and wide,
Methinks,
For milder weather.
A bunch of violets without their roots,
And sorrel intermixed,
Encircled by a wisp of straw
Once coiled about their shoots,
The law
By which I'm fixed.
A nosegay which Time clutched from out
Those fair Elysian fields,
With weeds and broken stems, in haste,
Doth make the rabble rout
That waste
The day he yields.
And here I bloom for a short hour unseen,
Drinking my juices up,
With no root in the land
To keep my branches green,
But stand
In a bare cup.
Some tender buds were left upon my stem
In mimicry of life,
But ah! the children will not know,
Till time has withered them,
The woe
With which they're rife.
But now I see I was not plucked for naught,
And after in life's vase
Of glass set while I might survive,
But by a kind hand brought
Alive
To a strange place.
That stock thus thinned will soon redeem its hours,
And by another year,
Such as God knows, with freer air,
More fruits and fairer flowers
Will bear,
While I droop here.
– Henry David Thoreau (1849)
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| Anonymous Italian Photographer Basilica Cattedrale Patriarcale di San Marco, Venice ca. 1850-76 hand-colored albumen print Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Anonymous Italian Photographer Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, Venice ca. 1850-76 hand-colored albumen print Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Anonymous Italian Photographer Libreria Vecchia by night, Venice ca. 1850-76 hand-colored albumen print Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Guadenzio Marconi Academic Nude, Paris ca. 1870-80 albumen silver print Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Guadenzio Marconi Academic Nude, Paris ca. 1870-80 albumen silver print Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Étienne Carjat Portrait of Émile Zola ca. 1869 woodburytype Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| attributed to Paul Nadar Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt ca. 1880 albumen print Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Étienne Neurdein Italian Gallery at the Exposition Universelle of 1878, Paris 1878 albumen print Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Étienne Neurdein Sculpture Gallery in the Louvre ca. 1880-1910 albumen print Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron Portrait of Laura and Rachel Gurney 1872 albumen print Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |