Sunday, November 19, 2023

Visual Relics (1862-1865)

Charles Marville
Decorative Sculptures
by the firm of Monduit et Béchet, Paris

1862
albumen print
Princeton University Art Museum

Charles Marville
Moulins Cathedral - Construction of the Nave
1863
albumen print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Oscar Gustave Rejlander
Found Drowned
ca. 1862
albumen silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Oscar Gustave Rejlander
Self Portrait as Garibaldi
ca. 1862
albumen print
Princeton University Art Museum

attributed to Oscar Gustave Rejlander
Julia Jackson
(later the mother of Virginia Woolf)
ca. 1864-65
albumen print
Art Institute of Chicago

William England
Sèvres China Display at the International Exhibition, London
1862
albumen prints (stereograph)
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Lady Clementina Hawarden
Clementina Maude Hawarden seated at a Table
ca. 1862-63
albumen silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Anonymous Photographer
Colors of the 16th Regiment of New York Volunteers
1863
salted paper print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Samuel Bourne
Qutab Minar, Delhi
ca. 1863-64
albumen print
Princeton University Art Museum

Gustave Hergaux
Flying Buttresses, Railroad Station
ca. 1863
albumen print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Camille Silvy
Madame Camille Silvy née Alice Monnier
ca. 1863
albumen silver print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Disdéri et Cie.
Mlle. Walter
ca. 1864
hand-colored albumen silver print
(carte de visite)
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Disdéri et Cie.
Sylvain
ca. 1864
hand-colored albumen silver print
(carte de visite)
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Adolphe Bilordeaux
Main Drapée (study cast)
1864
albumen print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Adolphe Bilordeaux
Tête (study cast)
1864
albumen print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Anonymous Photographer
Five Confederate Generals who fled to Mexico
1865
albumen print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

The Fleet

Each night upon the bed's dry sea
His tibia wrecks upon her knee.
Great homing boats, they flounder there,
His ironsides just athwart her hair,
In thickest fogs that drown his roar
Move singly toward a diverse shore,
And roll and founder side by side,
The mighty groom and ancient bride,
With boom and bell and warning blast,
Guideless and starless, mast to mast.

– Ruth Stone (1954)