1862
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Clementina and Isabella Grace Maude, 5 Princes Gardens is a 1862 photographic by Clementina Hawarden, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a photograph from the 1860s showing two girls in a plain room. The artist used a tricky old-school process where glass plates had to stay wet while she worked. Lady Hawarden set up a whole studio on one floor of her house. She even showed her pictures at a top photography club in London. Try looking up the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more of her work.
The sepia photograph depicts two young women in white dresses within an interior setting, one seated and reading while the other stands beside her. The composition captures a quiet moment of shared engagement with a book, framed against the bare floorboards of a dedicated studio space. The image reflects deliberate artistic effort, employing the wet collodion process on glass negatives and later exhibited at a prominent photographic society. Historical records indicate the scene was arranged on the first floor of 5 Princes Gardens, with elements such as net curtains and neighboring buildings…
Read the full account in the museum source.
Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden, commonly known as Lady Clementina Hawarden, was a Scottish amateur portrait photographer of the Victorian era. She produced over 800 photographs mostly of her adolescent daughters.
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