Lewis Carroll
Xie Kitchin

ArtistEnglish, 1832–1898
CultureEnglish
Titles
  • Xie Kitchin
Date1874
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 5 9/16 × 7 1/2 in. (14.1 × 19.1 cm)
Sheet: 5 9/16 × 7 1/2 in. (14.1 × 19.1 cm)
Mount: 7 1/2 × 9 1/8 in. (19 × 23.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2024.32
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was not only the famous author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), a lecturer in mathematics at Oxford University, and an ordained deacon, he was also a talented and prolific photographer, primarily of portraits and most notably of children. He set his young subjects at ease with stories, games, and magic tricks, and photography was part of their shared entertainment. Carroll’s most frequently photographed subject was Alexandra (“Xie”) Kitchin (1864–1925), the daughter of a colleague and old friend from Carroll’s student days at Oxford.


ProvenanceBy descent through the Kitchin family to the grand-niece of Xie Kitchin; [Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers, London, April 23, 2023, lot 75]; [Serge Kakou, Paris]; purchased by MFAH, 2024.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Typed in black on mount recto, bottom center: Xie Kitchin
N/A
Catalogue raisonnéWakeling IN-2251.

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J.G. West
R. A. Lewis
1860s
Albumen silver print
90.570
Private, United States Army
R. A. Lewis
1860s
Albumen silver print
90.571
Overall recto
Carroll Dunham
2006
Lithograph on wove paper, printer’s proof, 4/4, aside from the edition of 5
2021.400.5
Overall recto
Carroll Dunham
2006
Lithograph on wove paper, printer’s proof, 4/4, aside from the edition of 5
2021.400.6
Overall recto
Carroll Dunham
2006
Lithograph on wove paper, printer’s proof, 4/4, aside from the edition of 5
2021.400.12
Overall recto
Carroll Dunham
2006
Lithograph on wove paper, printer’s proof, 4/4, aside from the edition of 5
2021.400.11
Overall recto
Carroll Dunham
2006
Lithograph on wove paper, printer’s proof, 4/4, aside from the edition of 5
2021.400.14
Overall recto
Carroll Dunham
2006
Lithograph on wove paper, printer’s proof, 4/4, aside from the edition of 5
2021.400.13
Overall recto
Carroll Dunham
2006
Lithograph on wove paper, printer’s proof, 4/4, aside from the edition of 5
2021.400.8
Overall recto
Carroll Dunham
2006
Lithograph on wove paper, printer’s proof, 4/4, aside from the edition of 5
2021.400.7
Overall recto
Carroll Dunham
2006
Lithograph on wove paper, printer’s proof, 4/4, aside from the edition of 5
2021.400.10
Overall recto
Carroll Dunham
2006
Lithograph on wove paper, printer’s proof, 4/4, aside from the edition of 5
2021.400.9