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The affection of the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland  for children is well-known, and indeed, many of Dodgson’s best photographs are sensitive portraits of his ‘child friends’. These range from straightforward portraits of children dressed in their own clothes (see the portrait of Xie Kitchin, Ph.408-1981) to photographs of children in fancy-dress, sometimes acting out narratives.  \r\n\r\nSt George and the Dragon is one of Dodgson’s most ambitious narrative photographs, in which all four Kitchin siblings (the children of George William Kitchin (1827-1912), dean of Winchester and Durham) use the accoutrements of the nursery to act out this allegory of the triumph of good over evil.  In a belted nightgown and a cardboard crown, Alexandra ‘Xie’ Rhoda (1864-1925) plays the princess while her brother Brook Taylor (1869-1940), as St George, rides a rocking horse to her rescue.  George Herbert (b.1865) is the dead soldier and Hugh Bridges (1867-1945), draped in a leopard-skin rug, the vanquished dragon.  The photograph was made in Dodgson’s attic studio at Christ Church on 26 June 1875.","physicalDescription":"Photograph of young children acting out story of St George and the Dragon.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Lewis Carroll","id":"A11388"},"association":{"text":"photographer","id":"x43821"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"albumen","id":"AAT11802"},{"text":"collodion","id":"AAT127347"}],"techniques":[{"text":"wet collodion process","id":"AAT133299"},{"text":"albumen process","id":"AAT133274"},{"text":"photography","id":"AAT54225"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Albumen print from a wet collodion negative","categories":[{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"},{"text":"Making It Up: Photographic Fictions","id":"THES281337"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2013GC2837","2013GB7061"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLF","id":"THES49656"},"free":"","case":"X","shelf":"799","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"photograph","id":"AAT46300"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"UK","id":"x29336"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1875","earliest":"1875-01-01","latest":"1875-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Noelene Grant","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"110","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"26/02/2021","earliest":"2021-02-26","latest":"2021-02-26"},"part":"object","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"165","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"26/02/2021","earliest":"2021-02-26","latest":"2021-02-26"},"part":"object","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Letters relating to this photograph are currently stored in PX3.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Photograph by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) Xie, Herbert, Hugh, and Brook Kitchin in \"St George and the Dragon\", albumen print, 1875.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Similar image appears in <i>Lewis Carroll: Photographer</i> (2002) Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University, page 217."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Published in V&A Publications/Thames and Hudson 'Making It Up: Photographic Fictions' 2018, by Marta Weiss"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Saint George","id":"N2524"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"children","id":"AAT25945"},{"text":"dragon","id":"x39308"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Label for 'Making It Up: Photographic Fictions' (3 May 2013 - 12 January 2014) and 2018:\r\n\r\n\r\nBest known as the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Dodgson was also an Oxford mathematics don and an accomplished amateur photographer. Many of his photographs are portraits of his ‘child friends’. Here, four siblings enact St George slaying the dragon and rescuing the princess. The scene is at once a depiction of the popular legend and a staged representation of children at play.  \r\n\r\nAlbumen print\r\nGiven by Noelene Grant\r\nMuseum no. E.145-2009\r\n","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["E.145-2009"],"accessionNumberNum":"145","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2009,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-08","recordCreationDate":"2009-07-29","availableToBook":false}}