Giuseppe Girometti Alexander I, Emperor of Russia with Empress Elizaveta Alexeyevna ca. 1816 sardonyx cameo Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Benedetto Pistrucci King George III 1816 sardonyx cameo British Museum |
John Kelly Princess Charlotte Augusta, daughter of King George IV 1817 ivory relief Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Anonymous Russian Artist Catherine the Great before 1818 jasper cameo Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Samuel Percy Posthumous Portrait of Queen Anne ca. 1800-1820 colored-wax relief, with velvet drapery Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Anonymous Austrian Artist Caroline Augusta, Empress of Austria ca. 1820 agate cameo Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Giovanni Beltrami Franz I, Emperor of Austria before 1840 onyx cameo Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Richard Cockle Lucas Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ca. 1850 ivory relief Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Ended, ere it began –
The Title was scarcely told
When the Preface perished from Consciousness
The story, unrevealed –
Had it been mine, to print!
Had it been yours, to read!
That it was not our privilege
The interdict of God –
– Emily Dickinson (1865)
Henri de Triqueti Portrait of a Young Woman 1850 marble relief Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Alexander Munro Agnes Gladstone ca. 1855 plaster relief Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
James Sherwood Westmacott Constance Westmacott, the Artist's Daughter ca. 1872 marble relief Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Tommaso Saulini Edward, Prince of Wales 1870 shell cameo British Museum |
Anonymous Artist Alexandra, Princess of Wales 1870 shell cameo British Museum |
Carlo Giuliano Queen Victoria 1877 gold relief portrait set in enamelled-gold pendant, with rubies, diamonds and pearls Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Berquin-Varangoz Workshop, Paris Portrait of Heber R. Bishop 1898 jade relief Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |