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They often play out courtship scenes, dressed in 18th-century costume. Hawarden’s main interest in these scenes was perhaps as a stimulus to her sense of composition. She would arrange the figures into satisfying dramatised poses, together with fixed elements of the studio such as the casements of the windows, the wooden floors and the reflections. Transitory effects such as the play of light and shadow across the figure grouping also have a part to play in the composition.","physicalDescription":"Sepia photograph, mounted on green card, of two young women in 18th century costume.\r\n\r\n5 Princes Gardens, interior: first floor, front: left window: screen: floor-boards: Clementina (right profile), in fancy dress (breeches), eyes closed, seated on folded mattress on floor, left hand fingering brim of Isabella Grace's hat and right hand holding tricorn hat on Isabella Grace's lap, and Isabella Grace, in fancy dress (eighteenth-century shepherdess style), eyes closed, seated, arms folded across waist. Reflection of her left side in window. 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Reflection of her left side in window. Visible through window: balustrade; houses east side of Princes Gardens. Inscription (verso): No 150; Inscription (verso of mount): (X614-)150  238 x 273 mmPH 356-1947 Series 145 Literature: Microfilm: 3.18.102; V&A Picture Library negative no. HG 210. Windows, Fox Talbot Museum, 1985; Masterpieces, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1986. Whether or not the participants were aware of it, some of Lady Hawarden's photographs reverberate with romantic, even sexual, feeling. Such are the models' powers of persuasion that it seems not to matter that this eighteenth-century tableau is set, not on a mossy rock in a wooded glade, but on a rolled-up mattress on a bare wooden floor. The elegant line of Clementina's legs, revealed by her Cherubino-like knee­breeches, thrusts her toward Isabella Grace. Foiled by her crossed arms, the lover does not enfold the beloved. Rather, in a gesture epitomizing the scene's pervasive delicacy, Clementina merely fingers the brim of Isabella Grace's hat. A shadow hangs over the pair, though it serves to draw them closer.'","briefDescription":"Lady Hawarden, 'Clementina and Isabella Grace Maude, 5 Princes Gardens', photograph.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Female Trouble. Die Kamera als Spiegel und Bühne weiblicher Inszenierungen</u> Munich: Pinakothek der Moderne, 2008. ISBN: 978-3-7757-2203-2."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Literature: Microfilm: 3.18.102; V&A Picture Library negative no. 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They enact the intimacy of lovers while also evoking the emotional closeness between mother and daughter, and between sisters. The photographs were torn from albums and, since they have no captions, the narrative is left to the viewer’s imagination.","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}},{"text":"Label for 'Making It Up: Photographic Fictions' (3 May 2013 - 12 January 2014):\r\n\r\nClementina, Lady Hawarden (1822–65)\r\nStudies from Life or Photographic Studies\r\nAbout 1864\r\n\r\nLady Hawarden made many staged tableaux using her two eldest daughters as models. Here they portray scenes of courtship. They enact the intimacy of lovers while also evoking the emotional closeness between mother and daughter, and between sisters. The photographs were torn from albums, and since they have no captions, the narrative is left to the viewer’s imagination. \r\n\r\nAlbumen prints\r\nGiven by Lady Clementina Tottenham\r\nMuseum nos. 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