History File: The Elusive, Sensual Victorian Photography of Lady Hawarden
Above: Clementina Maude, by Lady Hawarden, about 1863
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She’s been called the first fashion photographer and an enigmatic viscountess who captured the “unseen sensuality” of the Victorian era. London’s Victoria and Albert Museum notes that Lady Clementina Hawarden was “a pioneering and prolific amateur photographer” who created sun-drenched portraits …