(Untitled) Photographic Study

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Artist/Maker	Hawarden, Clementina (Viscountess) (maker)
Place of origin	Tipperary (photographed)

Photograph, albumen print. The photographer's daughters and husband stand infront of a building (possibly Togge House) apparently enacting a 'peasant scene' tableau vivant. Clementina in fancy dress (peasant outfit) stands barefoot on a chair holding a winnowing sieve; Lord Hawarden and Florence Elizabeth (also in a peasant outfit and barefoot) stand next to her supporting a sack of straw. A wheelbarrow and various tools are positioned beside them.

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Categories	Photographs Scotland SCRAN
Object type	Photograph
Titles	(Untitled) Photographic Study (series title) Study from Life (series title)
Materials and techniques	Albumen print from wet collodion on glass negative Albumen Process Wet Collodion Process
Brief description	(Untitled) Photographic Study, albumen print, Viscountess Clementina Hawarden, Ireland, about 1860
Physical description	Photograph, albumen print. The photographer's daughters and husband stand infront of a building (possibly Togge House) apparently enacting a 'peasant scene' tableau vivant. Clementina in fancy dress (peasant outfit) stands barefoot on a chair holding a winnowing sieve; Lord Hawarden and Florence Elizabeth (also in a peasant outfit and barefoot) stand next to her supporting a sack of straw. A wheelbarrow and various tools are positioned beside them.
Historical context	Lady Hawarden took many photographs of fancy tableaux of 'peasant life'. This was a popular theme in mid nineteenth-century art, particularly in the paintings of e.g. Millet, in which farm work is endowed with spiritual qualities. Parallels might also be drawn with the work of the photographer Henry Peach Robinson, who created images of idealised peasant life. Lady Hawarden's images differ from these in that she does not attempt to disguise the identities of her models.
Production	Dundrum House grounds, possibly Togge House
Subjects depicted	Peasants Hawarden, Cornwallis Maude (4th Viscount) Hawarden, Clementina (Viscountess)
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	295-1947

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Record created	April 30, 2003
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O80390/untitled-photographic-study-photograph-hawarden-clementina-viscountess/

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