1864
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Clementina Maude as a nun is a 1864 photographic by Clementina Hawarden, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This photograph is titled Clementina Maude as a nun. It was taken by Hawarden, Clementina around 1864. The pose in this photo is similar to that of the Virgin Mary in a picture by Anna Jameson. This shows how photographers were inspired by paintings of the past. To learn more about this style of photography, look up the movement: Realism.
A sepia photograph mounted on green card depicts a young woman posed as a nun, her arms crossed over her chest and her gaze directed upward. The subject, Clementina Maude, is shown in three-quarter length, wearing a wimple and veil, and the composition closely resembles depictions of the Virgin Mary in Anna Jameson’s *Legends of the Madonna*. The photograph was taken in a photography booth at the Horticultural Gardens in South Kensington around 1864, Lady Hawarden’s final year as a photographer. The image reflects the period’s tendency to emulate Old Master paintings in photographic practice.
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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