Saturday, November 18, 2023

Visual Relics (1860-1862)

Felice Beato
Prince Kung, Emperor of China
1860
albumen silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Felice Beato
Interior of the Angle of North Taku Fort
(Second Opium War, Tianjin, China)

1860
albumen print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

attributed to Felice Beato
Crumbling Brick Pagoda, Sung Dynasty
ca. 1860
albumen silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

attributed to Felice Beato
Tea Room on Water
ca. 1860
albumen silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Felice Beato
Nakashima, Japan
ca. 1860
albumen silver print
Milwaukee Art Museum

Camille Silvy
Rosa Csillag as Orpheus
1860
albumen print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Camille Silvy
John Leech with the Venus de Milo
ca. 1860
albumen silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Camille Silvy
The Prince of Wales
1861
hand-colored albumen silver print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Camille Silvy
Princess Alice
ca. 1861
hand-colored albumen silver print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri
Carte de visite Portraits of Clara Silvois
ca. 1860
albumen print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri
Opera singer Adelaide Ristori as Medea
ca. 1860
albumen print (carte de visite)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Oscar Gustave Rejlander
Portrait of a Young Woman
ca. 1860
albumen silver print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Oscar Gustave Rejlander
Virginia, Countess Somers
1861
albumen print
Princeton University Art Museum

Oscar Gustave Rejlander
Virginia, Countess Somers
1861
albumen print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Édouard Baldus
Cloisters, Saint Trophîme, Arles
ca. 1861
albumen silver print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Édouard Baldus
Roman Ruin, Saint-Rémy
ca. 1862
albumen silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Mourning

Why do you go about looking for me, mother?
    I and my betrothed are together in the shed –
Sitting there together for a little while,
    Why are you so anxious? Leave me peaceful with my dead.

– D.H. Lawrence (1919)