#early photography
Two women at a farm in Rotheütte, 1849
‘Blackbirds’, a group of men and women sitting in a fallen tree. Photograph by Louis Milton Thiers
Autochrome of a woman in a tree, Russia by Peter Ivanovich Vedenisov c.1910
A group of ladies walking in the park c.1885
The inside of Jenner’s Department store in Edinburgh, Scotland c.1895
People ice skating in New York’s Central Park c.1858
Garden at the Moulin Rouge, 1898
Mrs Macquarie’s chair c.1880 vs today
Georgiana, Helen, Louisa and Caroline Dillon on the steps of Clonbrock House. Included in the photo are Zoe (shaggy terrier) and Ness, the Dillon Dogs.
Date: 10 November 1863
A stylish couple in their parlour c.1900
Palefrenier tatoué | Tattooed groom, ca. 1867, Guimet Museum (sometimes credited as Felice Beato’s) | src Musée Guimet Photo © RMN-Grand Palais
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An extraordinary and fascinating photographic work here, by Thomas Eakins, captured with a similar technique to Muybridge’s sequential photographs, but here superimposed one over another to create something as bizarre as it is interesting. The leaping model is none other than Eakins himself.
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Eadweard Muybridge (1830 - 1904) was a pioneer in his field, developing a technique of multiple cameras to capture movement of human and animal models at various stages in their stride, or whatever requested action was acted out before his array of equipment. Horses were a favoured topic, being of such importance to daily life at the time rather than a mere hobby as they are to many modern horsemen, myself included!
I was originally going to post just the uppermost picture in my collection simply because it turned up in my searching for artistic nudes of the Victorian era, but have since happened across several other plates featuring the same model and horse (a mare named Pandora, I find it delightful to know her name when so many of my pictures are of anonymous subjects!), and thought some of you may find them of interest.
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Daguerreotype portrait of a sailor smoking a pipe in Cairo, Egypt, taken by French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, c. 1843-1844.
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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Portrait of a young woman identified as Miss Jeanne taken by Belgian photographer Louis Pierre Theophile Dubois de Nehaut, c. 1854-1856.
Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Carte de visite portrait of Jane Kettle by photographer J.W. Gilmor of Colchester, England, July 1864.
Source: Rijksmuseum.
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Portrait of two unidentified women in Egypt taken by German photographer Ernest Benecke, 1852.
Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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