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Mr. William Rubel

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Roger Fenton, Derwentwater, c. 1860, albumen print, Robert B. Menschel Fund, 1997.97.2

Derwentwater

Roger Fenton · c. 1860 · albumen print ·  Accession ID  1997.97.2

We look across a street at the façade of a five-story building with a pitched roof in this square sepia-toned photograph. Vertical rectangular windows are spaced along the lowest two levels of the building, which appears to be constructed with large rectangular stones. There is a squat, arched window over a dark opening at the bottom center. The façade of the next two stories is smooth. Tall, narrow arched windows line the third story, and the fourth story has smaller rectangular windows with shutters. Columns frame the central bank of windows in the third and fourth stories. Dormers of the fifth level protrude from the low pitched roof, which nearly reaches the top edge of the photograph. Another house is visible through a narrow alleyway to our right, and another shorter house is cropped by the right edge. Some details of the three horse-drawn carriages lining the street in front of the houses are blurry. The image is surrounded by a wide black band with uneven edges.
William Henry Fox Talbot, The Boulevards of Paris, 1843, salted paper print, New Century Fund, 1997.97.4

The Boulevards of Paris

William Henry Fox Talbot · 1843 · salted paper print ·  Accession ID  1997.97.4

The head and shoulders of a young woman with pale skin and long hair nearly fill this vertical, sepia-toned photograph. Shown against a dark background, she looks directly at us. Her nose is straight and her lips closed. Wavy curls piled over her forehead suggest that her hair is partially pulled back or pinned up around her oval face, and it falls behind her shoulders. Her garment has wide lapels and is worn over patterned clothing.
Julia Margaret Cameron, The Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty, June 1866, albumen print, New Century Fund, 1997.97.1

The Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty

Julia Margaret Cameron · June 1866 · albumen print ·  Accession ID  1997.97.1

British 19th Century, Portrait of a Child, c. 1850, daguerreotype with applied color, Robert B. Menschel Fund, 1997.97.5

Portrait of a Child

British 19th Century · c. 1850 · daguerreotype with applied color ·  Accession ID  1997.97.5

David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson, The Three Sleepers: Sophia Finlay, Harriet Farnie and Brownie, c. 1845, salted paper print, New Century Fund, 1997.97.3

The Three Sleepers: Sophia Finlay, Harriet Farnie and Brownie

David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson · c. 1845 · salted paper print ·  Accession ID  1997.97.3