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louise-marie-julie, c. 1849, by louis-adolphe humbert de molard. photograph: salted paper print from paper negative.

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Polaroids taken aboard the Pride of Baltimore II, ft. the Duxbury Pier Lighthouse and the cutter Bloodhound, August 2024.

all photos ⓒ @the-golden-vanity

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portrait of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, by Karl Bryullov (Карл Брюлло́в), detail

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Group portraits of an African American family in a meadow. C.1910.

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Photo by Edward Steichen, 1933 Part of the "Misty-Eyed March" series

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Two Soldiers by John Singer Sargent (1918)

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Selling Fish, art by George Morland (1792)

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barbette photographed by man ray c. 1925-27

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Ships on a stormy sea, painted over a fragmentary portrait of a young man (c. 1655-60 for the portrait, c. 1685-90 for the seascape), attributed to Isaak Luttichuys and Ludolf Backhuysen. Courtesy of Dickinson.

A less fearsome but equally compelling artifact resembled a 17th-century digital collage—an inadvertent artist collaboration. It began as a portrait of a young man by Isaak Luttichuys (c. 1655–60), later overpainted with a stormy seascape attributed to Ludolf Backhuysen (c. 1685–90). Rather than fully obscuring the figure, the second artist let the young man’s face emerge eerily from the waves. Eventually, the portrait was painted over entirely, and by the 1950s, it was sold as a pure seascape. Only recent cleaning revealed the original face, confirming it was no accidental palimpsest but an intentional, possibly satirical, intervention. “It’s a very strange oddity,” said William Bayliss of Dickinson in London, who can trace its provenance back 150 years.

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A skull: three views. Pencil drawing, Heinrich Appenzeller (1558)

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Woman's Waistcoat

1780s

Kerry Taylor Auctions

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Evening dress ca. 1900

From the Brighton & Hove Museums

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Neubrandenburg in the Morning Mist (1816) by Caspar David Friedrich

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Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier - "A Painter"

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1890-1895 Tea gown (afternoon dress) by Charles Frederick Worth (Paris, France)

silk brocaded satin with a fitted and boned bodice

(Royal Ontario Museum)

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Did You Ever Kill Anybody Father? (1883) - Frank Holl