Tag Archives: Mourning

Haunting Likenesses: The Anonymous 19th-Century Woman in Photographic Portraits

Posted on October 19, 2017 by mansionmusings

This post discusses photographic portraits in Bartow-Pell’s fall exhibition, The “Quiet Circle”: Women and Girls in 19th-Century America, on view until November 19. The faces look out at us. Their eyes lock ours. Long ago, they stared into a camera … Continue reading →

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Summer Mourning: Death at Bartow, June 24

Posted on June 17, 2016 by mansionmusings

On June 24, 1867, twenty-seven-year-old Robert Erskine Bartow died at his family’s bucolic country estate. Exactly one year later, his father, Robert Bartow, followed him to the grave at the age of seventy-six. Both are buried in the family plot … Continue reading →

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