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| Fratelli Alinari Michelangelo's David, Florence ca. 1850 albumen print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Lady Clementina Hawarden Elphinstone Agnes Hawarden on a Donkey, Dundrum House, County Tipperary, Ireland ca. 1858-61 albumen print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Lady Clementina Hawarden Isabella Grace Hawarden in the Stable-Yard, Dundrum House, County Tipperary, Ireland ca. 1858-61 albumen print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Lady Clementina Hawarden The Multeen River on the grounds of Dundrum House, County Tipperary, Ireland ca. 1858-61 albumen print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Roger Fenton An Oxford College ca. 1859 albumen print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron Lady Elcho - A Dantesque Vision 1865 albumen print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron Beatrice Cenci (May Prinsep) 1866 albumen silver print Milwaukee Art Museum |
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| Anonymous Photographer (France) Model posed against Woodland Backdrop ca. 1870 albumen silver print Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Anonymous Photographer (USA) Three Workmen ca. 1870 tintype Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Anonymous Photographer (Great Britain) Woodland with Tree in Foreground ca. 1870 albumen print Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron Celanese Group 1878 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| W. Carpenter (Windsor) Princess Elisabeth of Hesse (granddaughter of Queen Victoria) ca. 1880 gelatin silver print Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Frederick H. Evans Lincoln Cathedral, Northwest Door 1895 platinum print Milwaukee Art Museum |
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| Arnold Genthe Street of the Gamblers ca. 1896 gelatin silver print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Clarence H. White The Readers ca. 1897 platinum print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Gertrude Käsebier Self Portrait ca. 1899 hand-colored platinum print Milwaukee Art Museum |
from The City of Paris has You in Mind Tonight
At the funeral his wife
had a gaudy kind of beauty.
Sheer and elegant in a champagne
silk blouse. And where did he go?
No matter where on this earth
and you could never find him.
Flowery and young
came the mourners, like bridesmaids.
G would have liked it that way.
Stilettos and stockings.
The curves of the widow
sleek and sublimate in blacksilk pants.
Elsewhere people
went shopping or to the movies.
We drove to the crematorium.
I can only hope
so many beautiful women
come to my funeral, M said.
– Deborah Landau (2015)