Photograph
1863-1864
| Artist/Maker |
5 Princes Gardens, interior: first floor, front: left window (not shown): screen: Clementina (three-quarter length), in fancy dress (medieval or Orientalist, with head-dress and veil), standing, hands joined, left elbow on left candleholder of cheval-glass, which reflects her left side.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Albumen print |
| Brief description | 19thC; Hawarden C, D 646, 5 Princes Gardens, Clementina and mirror, c. 1863-64 |
| Physical description | 5 Princes Gardens, interior: first floor, front: left window (not shown): screen: Clementina (three-quarter length), in fancy dress (medieval or Orientalist, with head-dress and veil), standing, hands joined, left elbow on left candleholder of cheval-glass, which reflects her left side. |
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| Historical context | From departmental notes 'Clementina, Lady Hawarden (Untitled) Photographic study (or) Study from Life (D.646) .1863-c.1864 5 Princes Gardens, interior: first floor, front: left window (not shown): screen: Clementina (three-quarter length), in fancy dress (medieval or Orientalist, with head-dress and veil), standing, hands joined, left elbow on left candleholder of cheval-glass, which reflects her left side. Inscription (verso): No 107; Inscriptions (verso of mount): X614-107 (and) photographed by Lady Hawarden (in D Wright's handwriting) 229 x 270 mm PH 341-1947 Literature: Roy Aspin, 'Oh Weary Neutral Days', The British Journal of Photography (28 May 1982), p. 564; Jean-Luc Dava1, Photography: History of an Art, 1982, p.66; Va1 Wi1liams, Women Photographers: Tr Other Observers 1900 to the Present, 1986, p.15, fig.2. Microfilm: 3.18.116; V&A Picture Library negativ no. GA 3461 (reference no. 19032).' |
| Bibliographic reference | Literature: Roy Aspin, 'Oh Weary Neutral Days', The British Journal of Photography (28 May 1982), p. 564; Jean-Luc Dava1, Photography: History of an Art, 1982, p.66; Va1 Wi1liams, Women Photographers: Tr Other Observers 1900 to the Present, 1986, p.15, fig.2. Microfilm: 3.18.116; V&A Picture Library negativ no. GA 3461 (reference no. 19032). |
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| Accession number | 341-1947 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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