Brady Portraits (for P.T. Barnum)

Mathew Brady
Paul Kinney and Anna Swan
(P.T. Barnum's "Human Curiosities" 
in his American Museum, New York City)
ca. 1860-70
albumen print from glass-plate negative
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Mathew Brady
James Murphy and Edward Newell
(P.T. Barnum's "Human Curiosities" 
in his American Museum, New York City)
ca. 1860-70
albumen print from glass-plate negative
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Mathew Brady
Minnie Warren
(P.T. Barnum's "Human Curiosity" 
in his American Museum, New York City)
ca. 1860-70
albumen print from glass-plate negative
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Mathew Brady
George Washington Morrison Nutt
(P.T. Barnum's "Human Curiosity" 
in his American Museum, New York City)
ca. 1860-70
albumen print from glass-plate negative
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Mathew Brady
Group Portrait
(P.T. Barnum's "Human Curiosities" in his American Museum, New York City)
ca. 1860-70
albumen print from glass-plate negative
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Mathew Brady
Circassian Beauty
(P.T. Barnum's "Human Curiosity" 
in his American Museum, New York City)
ca. 1860-70
albumen print from glass-plate negative
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Mathew Brady
Rudolph Lucasie and Family
(P.T. Barnum's "Human Curiosities" 
in his American Museum, New York City)
ca. 1860-70
albumen print from glass-plate negative
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Mathew Brady
Hannah and John Battersby
(P.T. Barnum's "Human Curiosities" 
in his American Museum, New York City)
ca. 1860-70
albumen print from glass-plate negative
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Mathew Brady
Hannah Battersby
(P.T. Barnum's "Human Curiosity" 
in his American Museum, New York City)
ca. 1860-70
albumen print from glass-plate negative
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Mathew Brady
Fat Baby
(P.T. Barnum's "Human Curiosity" 
in his American Museum, New York City)
ca. 1860-70
albumen print from glass-plate negative
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Mathew Brady
Fat Lady
(P.T. Barnum's "Human Curiosity" 
in his American Museum, New York City)
ca. 1860-70
albumen print from glass-plate negative
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Mathew Brady
Living Skeleton
(P.T. Barnum's "Human Curiosity" 
in his American Museum, New York City)
ca. 1860-70
albumen print from glass-plate negative
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Mathew Brady
Fiji Island Cannibals
(P.T. Barnum's "Human Curiosities" 
in his American Museum, New York City)
ca. 1860-70
albumen print from glass-plate negative
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Mathew Brady
Chang and Eng Bunker
(P.T. Barnum's "Human Curiosities" 
in his American Museum, New York City)
ca. 1860-70
albumen print from glass-plate negative
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Mathew Brady
Annie Jones
(P.T. Barnum's "Human Curiosity" 
in his American Museum, New York City)
ca. 1870-75
albumen print from glass-plate negative
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Mathew Brady
Bearded Lady
(P.T. Barnum's "Human Curiosities" 
in his American Museum, New York City)
ca. 1860-70
albumen print from glass-plate negative
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Mathew Brady
Charles Tripp
(P.T. Barnum's "Human Curiosity" 
in his American Museum, New York City)
ca. 1860-70
albumen print from glass-plate negative
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Mathew Brady
Thin Man with Violin
(P.T. Barnum's "Human Curiosity" 
in his American Museum, New York City)
ca. 1860-70
albumen print from glass-plate negative
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

from Metamorphoses

    When Jove behelde how all the worlde stoode lyke a plash of raine,

    And of so many thousand men and women did remaine

But one of eche, howbeit those both just and both devout,

He brake the Cloudes, and did commaund that Boreas with his stout

And sturdie blasts should chase the floud, that Earth might see the skie

And Heaven the Earth: the Seas also began immediatly

Their raging furie for to cease. Their ruler laide awaye

His dreadfull Mace, and with his wordes their woodnesse did alaye.

He called Tryton to him straight his trumpetter, who stoode

In purple robe on shoulder cast, aloft upon the floode.

And bade him take his sounding Trumpe and out of hand to blow

Retreat, that all the streames might heare, and cease from thence to flow. 

He tooke his Trumpet in his hand, hys Trumpet was a shell

Of some great Whelke or other fishe, in facion like a Bell

That gathered narrow to the mouth, and as it did descende,

Did ware more wide and writhen still, downe to the nether ende:

When that this Trumpe amid the Sea was set to Trytons mouth,

He blew so loude that all the streames both East, West, North and South,

Might easly heare him blow retreate, and all that heard the sounde

Immediatly began to ebbe and draw within their bounde.

Then gan the Sea to have a shore, and brookes to finde a banke,

And swelling streames of flowing flouds within hir chanels sanke.

Then hils did rise above the waves that had them overflow,

And as the waters did decrease the ground did seeme to grow.

And after long and tedious time the trees did shew their tops

All bare, save that upon the boughes the mud did hang in knops.

– Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), translated by Arthur Golding (1567)