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Girls in Front of Mirrors by Lady Clementina Hawarden

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Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden, née Clementina Elphinstone Fleeming (1822 – 1865) commonly known as Lady Clementina Hawarden, was a noted English amateur portrait photographer of the Victorian Era.

She turned to photography in late 1856 or, probably, in early 1857, whilst living on the family estate in Dundrum, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. A move to London in 1859 allowed her to set up a studio in her elegant home in South Kensington. There she took many of the characteristic portraits for which she is principally remembered. Many include her adolescent daughters Isabella Grace, Clementina and Florence Elizabeth. The furniture and characteristic decor of an upper-class London home was removed in order to create mise-en-scene images and theatrical poses within the first floor of her home. Hawarden produced albumen prints from wet-plate collodion negatives, a method commonly used at the time

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Lady Clementina Hawarden, unknown date via

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Lady Clementina Hawarden, unknown date via

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Lady Clementina Hawarden, unknown date via

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Lady Clementina Hawarden, unknown date via

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Lady Clementina Hawarden, unknown date via

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Lady Clementina Hawarden, unknown date via

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Lady Clementina Hawarden, unknown date via

Eldon House (1895)

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Interior view of Eldon House, 1895 – note the abundance of bric-a-brac and elaborate Victorian furnishings. Eldon House was built in 1834 for John Harris, Treasurer of the London District, and occupied by his family – his wife Amelia and their eight children. It was first named Eldon Terrace, shortly thereafter changed to Eldon House – via lib.uwo.ca