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Clementina Maude, 5 Princes Gardens

Photograph
c.1863-1864 (made)
Artist/Maker
Hawarden, Clementina (Viscountess) (photographer)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

Study from Life (Clementina seated) by Clementina, Lady Hawarden (British, 1822-1865). Albumen print taken at 5 Princes Gardens, interior view of a room on the first floor, with starred wall-paper and Clementina, in a long flowing white dress, seated, leaning on left elbow on French-style side-table, with her right arm across her body and resting on left arm of chair.

Object details

Categories
Images Online
Photographs
Portraits
Scotland
Object type
Photograph
Titles
  • Clementina Maude, 5 Princes Gardens (generic title)
  • Studies from Life (series title)
  • Photographic study (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Albumen print from wet collodion negative
Paper
Wet Collodion
Albumen
Brief description
Albumen print, study from life of Clementina Maude by Lady Clementina Hawarden (British, 1822-1865). Britain, c.1863-1864.
Physical description
Study from Life (Clementina seated) by Clementina, Lady Hawarden (British, 1822-1865). Albumen print taken at 5 Princes Gardens, interior view of a room on the first floor, with starred wall-paper and Clementina, in a long flowing white dress, seated, leaning on left elbow on French-style side-table, with her right arm across her body and resting on left arm of chair.
Dimensions
  • Image height: 236mm
  • Image length: 268mm
Dimensions taken from Brian Coe & Mark Haworth-Booth, A Guide to Early Photographic Printing Processes. London: The Victoria and Albert Museum in association with Hurtwood Press, 1983.
Credit line
Given by Lady Clementina Tottenham
Historical context
From departmental notes

'Clementina, Lady Hawarden (Untitled) Photographic Study (or) Study from Life (D.669) c.1863-c.1864 5 Princes Gardens, interior: first floor, front: right window: starred wall-paper: floor-boards: Clementina, in negligee, seated, leaning on left elbow on French-style side-table, right arm across body and resting on left arm of chair. Inscription (verso): No 232; Inscription (verso of mount): X614-232 235 x 269 mm PH 324-1947 Literature: Brian Coe and Mark Haworth-Booth, A Guide to Early Photographic Processes, 1983, p. 58, pl.14. Microfilm: 3.18.72; V&A Pictur~Library negativ no. HG 209. Portrait Photography in Europe 1850-70, Univers Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerq 1980-81.'
Subjects depicted
Interior
Clementina
Bibliographic references
  • Ahlund, Mikael (ed.), The Pre-Raphaelites Stockholm : Nationalmuseum, 2009 no. 139
  • Coe, Brian & Haworth-Booth, Mark. A Guide to Early Photographic Printing Processes. London: The Victoria and Albert Museum in association with Hurtwood Press, 1983.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
324-1947

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Record createdJanuary 21, 2003
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