Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Frances Benjamin Johnston

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Mrs Grover Cleveland with Wives of the Cleveland Cabinet
ca. 1897
albumen silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC


Frances Benjamin Johnston
Frances Folsom Cleveland
(Mrs Grover Cleveland)

1897
albumen silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Frances Folsom Cleveland
(Mrs Grover Cleveland)

1897
albumen silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Leonard Wood
1899
albumen silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Self Portrait with Elbert Hubbard and James Pond
1900
platinum print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Students making Barrel Furniture at Tuskegee Institute
1902
albumen silver print
Milwaukee Art Museum

Gertrude Käsebier
Frances Benjamin Johnston
1905
platinum print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1917
platinum print
Princeton University Art Museum

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Brandon (Burrowsville, Virginia)
ca. 1925
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Brandon (Burrowsville, Virginia)
ca. 1925
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Brandon (Burrowsville, Virginia)
ca. 1925
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Brandon (Burrowsville, Virginia)
ca. 1925
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Reveille (Richmond, Virginia)
ca. 1925
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Reveille (Richmond, Virginia)
ca. 1925
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Shirley Plantation (Charles City, Virginia)
ca. 1925
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Sunken Garden (Montpelier Station, Virginia)
ca. 1925
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Woodbury Forest (Louisa County, Virginia)
ca. 1925
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

from The Amores

In summers heate and mid-time of the day
To rest my limbes upon a bed I lay,
One window shut, the other open stood,
Which gave such light, as twincles in a wood,
Like twilight glimps at setting of the Sunne
Or night being past, and yet not day begunne.
Such light to shamefast maidens must be showne,
Where they may sort, and seem to be unknowne.
Then came Corinna in a long loose gowne,
Her white neck hid with tresses hanging downe:
Resembling fayre Semiramis going to bed
Or Layis of a thousand lovers spread.

– Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), translated by Christopher Marlowe (before 1593)