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Alexandra Rhoda Kitchin, conocida también por el hipocorístico Xie (29 de septiembre de 1864 - 6 de abril de 1925), fue durante su niñez y primera juventud modelo fotográfico de Lewis Carroll.
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).
Alexandra Rhoda Kitchin, conocida también por el hipocorístico Xie, fue durante su niñez y primera juventud modelo fotográfico de Lewis Carroll.
Xie (Alexandra) Kitchin, a beautiful and photogenic child, was Carroll's muse in the 1870s. Born in 1864, she was the daughter of George William Kitchin, a colleague and an old friend from Carroll's student days at Oxford.
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.
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.
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.
