Clementina Maude and Isabella Grace
Artist
Lady Clementina Hawarden
(English, born Scotland, 1822 - 1865)
Dateca. 1863
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 9 13/16 × 9 11/16 inches (24.97 × 24.61 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2017.68.59
Signednone
InscribedTitled on sheet verso, top, in pencil: "Grace Maude Clementina Maude / (taller)"
MarkingsOn sheet verso, center, in pencil: "no 217"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of two young women wearing long draped garments and leaning against a wall. They stand close to one another with eyes closed and heads bowed. The woman on the right wears pearls and a long striped shawl.Exhibition HistoryRotation 25. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 19, 2018- March 17, 2019, no cat.
Draped in long folds of cloth, sisters Clementina and Isabella Grace look away from their mother’s camera, averting their gaze from the sunlight streaming in through a window outside the picture’s frame. Photographer Lady Clementina Hawarden relied on natural light and staged her costumed daughters in the expansive interior of their London home. Like Julia Margaret Cameron, Lady Hawarden used photography as a means of creative expression within the confines of upper-class female domestic life.
Purchased at 19th & 20th Century Photographs, Christie's East, New York, NY, November 6, 1984, lot 5 by Emily and Jerry Spiegel, Kings Point, NY, 1984;
Purchased at their posthumous sale Visionaires: Photographs from the Emily and Jerry Spiegel Collection, Christie's, New York, October 10, 2017, lot 2 by The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Purchased at their posthumous sale Visionaires: Photographs from the Emily and Jerry Spiegel Collection, Christie's, New York, October 10, 2017, lot 2 by The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
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