#19th century photography
Gustavo Arcaris aka The Great Ascaris, with his sister Kate, was a well-known knife throwing act who worked for the P. T. Barnum circus c.1890
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1. Sarah Forbes Bonetta by contemporary artist Hannah Uzor. Queen Victoria became a patron of freed slave Sarah Forbes Bonetta and raised her as a goddaughter. The painting is displayed by English Heritage at Osborne House in the Isle of Wight as part of
A new painting of Queen Victoria’s African goddaughter has gone on display as English Heritage said it would feature portraits of “overlooked” black figures connected with its sites.
Sarah Forbes Bonetta was sold into slavery aged five and presented as a “diplomatic gift” to Captain Frederick Forbes in 1850 and brought to England.
She then met Queen Victoria through the captain, who paid for her education.
The painting is on show at the Isle of Wight’s Osborne House to coincide withBlack History Month.
2. Portrait of Sara Forbes Bonetta, 1862 by photographer Camille Silvy, on which Hannah Uzor’s painting is based.
3. Lithograph of Forbes Bonetta, after a drawing by Frederick E. Forbes, from his 1851 book Dahomey and the Dahomans; being the journals of two missions to the king of Dahomey, and residence at his capital, in the year 1849 and 1850.
Sources: English Heritage via BBC, and wikipedia.
Oh my gosh it’s her!!! This!!!
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The young Henri Matisse by John Peter Russell, ca. 1888.
- In 1887, at the age of 18 he went to Paris to study law, working as a court administrator in Le Cateau-Cambrésis after gaining his qualification. He first started to paint in 1889, after his mother brought him art supplies to pass the time during a period of convalescence following an attack of appendicitis. He discovered “a kind of paradise” as he later described it, and decided to become an artist, so he leaved the law school deeply dismay his father. He said later: “From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.” Matisse’s mother was the first to advise her son not to adhere to the “rules” of art, but rather listen to his own emotions.Post link
Photograph of a Japanese man, 19th century, identified as Oda Nobuyoshi and said to be a dentist.
Parisian waiter, c. 1900’s.
2ND LT. George Dunham 58th Massachusetts Infantry.
He enlisted in November 1863 at the age of 18. His regiment did not leave the State of Massachusetts until April 1864. The unit was heavily engaged in the Virginia campaign and the Cold Harbor debacle. Dunham was wounded on pickett duty at Spotsylvania and commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant on March 15, 1865.
Mugshot of Aimé Léonard, forge heater/miner and anarchist.
30 years old, 1m58.2 (5'2), light-brown hair.
Born in 1864, in Chalonnes-sur-Loire (Maine-et-Loire, France). Died in 1918, in Nanterre.
Married in 1898 then in 1901.
Taken on February 27th, 1894 by Alphonse Bertillon.
Cabinet cards of George Karlavagn, often advertised as the only stage performer tattooed by electricity, c. 1885, New York City.
Three first ones from the Charles Eisenmann.
Last one from Obermüller and Kern studio.
Daguerreotype of an unidentified man, c. 1850’s.
Unknown man, c. 1840’s-1850’s.
Unidentified couple, cabinet card, c. 1900.
F. Daval studio, Besançon (France).
From my personal collection
Unknown man, c. 1890’s, Miller Studio, Rochester NY.
(Source : Bowlers and High Collars)
Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with feathered hat and sword, c. 1860’s.
Unidentified sailor, c. 1880’s-1890’s.
Daguerreotype of an African-American, c. 1850’s.
Group of three sixth-plate portrait daguerreotypes.
(Source : Doyle.com)
Unknown man, c. 1893, Edward Goodwin studio, London.
Cowboy, 1912 postcard, USA.
(Source : Flickr)
Cabinet card of a Salvation Army worker, c. 1890’s.
From the F. I. Stofflet studio, Bangor, Pennsylvania.
Cabinet card of an unknown man, c. 1890’s, London.
The Bridge Over the Moat, Anonymous, 1896
silver gelatin print with original graphite retouching
Courtesy of Daniel Blau Gallery, London
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