Viscountess Clementina Hawarden

Born: Cumbernauld (near Glasgow), 1 June 1822

Died: London, 19 January 1865

Nationality: Scottish


Works by this Artist

Clementina in Underclothes
Viscountess Clementina Hawarden, 1862-63

Career

1857-8 – moves to Duncrum, County Tipperary, Ireland with husband, Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden; begins making photographs, stereoscopic landscapes

1859 – moves to London; makes stereoscopic carte-de-visite-style portraits

1863-64 – photographs exhibited at Photographic Society of London win silver medals

Readings

Close, S. "Gender, Space and Photography: Reading the Interiors of Clementina Hawarden," Design Principles and Practices, vol. 5, no. 1 (2011): 181-9

Lawson, Julie. Women in White: Photographs by Clementina Lady Hawarden. Exhibition catalogue. Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1997

Mavor, Carol. Becoming: the Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999

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