'The Ring and the Book.' Rome. A group of the Pope's Swiss Guard. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group of four members of the Swiss Guard, in uniform and posed beside a doorway. The figure from the previous print stands at the left of the group.
Genre: Portrait Photography Oval image; Three-quarter length standing portrait of two young women, one holding in her left hand the miniature portrait that the other wears about her neck. Technical note: 'Taken on collodion in June, 1855; weather fine; exposure ten seconds; developed with pyrog...
Fortune-telling. Photographer: Rejlander, Oscar Gustav
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Inscription: Inscribed in negative, 'O. G. R. Sept/55.' Genre: Portrait Photography Genre study showing an elderly woman seated at a table reading tea leaves, with two younger women (one seated, one standing) watching attentively. Technical note: 'Taken on collodion August 30, 1855; clear with...
Genre: Portrait Photography Oval image; three-quarter length portrait of a girl contemplating a caged bird, with a still-life arrangement on the table in the foreground. Technical note: 'Taken on collodion in October 1855; weather fine; exposure twenty seconds; developed with pyrogallic acid. D...
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait, looking off to the left, of Elizabeth Rigby (1809-1893), later Lady Eastlake. [Stevenson (1981), 'Women, Rigby (f).']
Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length standing portrait, in half-profile, looking intently off to the left, of the art historian Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860). [Stevenson (1981), 'Women, Jameson (a).']