1864
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Isabella Grace and Clementina Maude, 5 Princes Gardens is a 1864 photographic by Clementina Hawarden, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This photo shows two girls in a richly dressed room. The folds of fabric and soft light feel deliberate but not stiff. It’s a quiet moment, not a posed portrait. The room has a tent-like feel, which was a trend back then. People copied the look of Middle Eastern spaces in their own homes. It let artists play with mood and fantasy in a safe way. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum for more like this.
A sepia photograph mounted on green card depicts two young women in Orientalist-style fancy dress within an interior setting. Isabella Grace stands with closed eyes and clasped hands, while Clementina reclines on a draped divan with crossed legs, her right hand resting at her throat and her head against a screen. The scene evokes a tent-like atmosphere in the drawing room, aligning with Victorian trends influenced by painter J. F. Lewis and photographer Roger Fenton’s earlier Orientalist works. The image is part of a series exploring allegorical portraiture, rooted in earlier English artistic…
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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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