Evelyn Nesbit with Rose (The Bridal Rose)

Early photographers who aspired to be considered artists of the craft often composed scenes the same way painters staged models with studio props. Invoking the age-old association of women and flowers, Eickemeyer had the actress and model Evelyn Nesbit pose for this photograph, which he published as "The Bridal Rose."� The romantic and sensual subject of a woman sniffing a flower was popular with the 19th century English Pre-Raphaelite painters.