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HUGHES & MULLINS (1883-1917)

Leonora Caroline, 4th Baroness Ashburton (1844-1930)

1888 after an original of c.1863

Carbon print | 8.4 x 5.5 cm (image) | RCIN 2911486

Photograph of a full length portrait of Leonora Caroline, the Honourable Mrs Baring, later Baroness Ashburton, standing, facing three-quarters to the right. She looks ahead, away from the camera. She rests her left elbow on a plinth beside her and places her left hand to her cheek. She places her right arm across her waist.

  • Creator(s)

    Hughes & Mullins (1883-1917) (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Leonora Caroline, 4th Baroness Ashburton (1844-1930)

  • annotation: The Honble. Mrs Baring/ (2nd Daughter of Lord Digby.)/ Reproduced & Printed in Carbon in 1888. [beneath work]

  • 8.4 x 5.5 cm (image)

    9.6 x 6.4 cm (mount)

    22.7 x 18.0 cm (page dimensions)

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria

  • Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • albums
          • photograph albums
        • photographs
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