Photograph
1858-1861
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Dundrum House, grounds: photography booth: Isabella Grace, eyes down, standing beside springer spaniel, which is standing on its hind legs on chair.
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Materials and techniques | Albumen print |
Brief description | Hawarden C, D 174, Dundrum grounds, c. 1859-61 |
Physical description | Dundrum House, grounds: photography booth: Isabella Grace, eyes down, standing beside springer spaniel, which is standing on its hind legs on chair. |
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Historical context | From departmental notes 'Clementina, Lady Hawarden (Untitled) Photographic Study (or) Study from Life (D.174) c.1859-c.1861 Dundrum House, grounds: photography booth: Isabella Grace, eyes down, standing beside springer spaniel, which is standing on its hind legs on chair. 98 x 72 mm PH 457-1968:283 Series 28 Literature: Microfilm: 3.19.318 The setting of this photograph and many others in the Hawarden collection (see, for instance, D.173 to D.187) is a photography booth. Instructions for building these were given in photographic journals and handbooks. Often photographers who used such backdrops (including O.G. Rejlander, Julia Margaret Cameron and Lewis Carroll) trimmed or vignetted their prints to remove extraneous details, but Lady Hawarden has not done this. In form and in function, the booth recalls Emma Hamilton's 'attitudes' box. [See Martin Meisel, Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial, and Theatrical Arts in Nineteenth-Century England, Princeton, NJ 1983, 338-40' |
Bibliographic reference | Literature: Microfilm: 3.19.318 |
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Accession number | 457:283-1968 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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