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Alexandra "Xie" Rhoda Kitchin (29 September 1864 – 6 April 1925) was a notable 'child-friend' and favourite photographic subject of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll).
Approximately half of his photographs are portraits of children, sometimes wearing foreign costumes or acting out scenes. Here, Alexandra ‘Xie’ Kitchin, his most frequent child sitter, poses in Chinese dress on a stack of tea chests.
Alexandra Rhoda ('Xie') Cardew (née Kitchin) (1864-1925), Photographic model for Lewis Carroll; wife of Arthur Cardew; daughter of George William Kitchin. Sitter in 2 portraits
The model in this photograph, Alexandra “Xie” Kitchin, posed more than fifty times over eleven years, frequently for images inspired by literature. The title Carroll gave this work is the refrain of the poem The Lost Doll by the popular Victorian author Charles Kingsley.
Alexandra 'Xie' Rhoda Kitchin was a notable 'child-friend' and favourite photographic subject of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll). She was the daughter of Rev. George William Kitchin (1827–1912), who was Dodgson's colleague at Christ Church, Oxford, and later became Dean of Winchester and Dean of Durham.
Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom. ‘Alexandra 'Xie' Kitchin’ was created in 1877 by Lewis Carroll in Pictorialism style. Find more prominent pieces of photo at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Alexandra Kitchin (known as ‘Xie’) was the latest (albeit the one Carroll photographed most frequently) of those many girls who had come to college to have their ‘likenesses’ taken.
