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Lady Mary Georgina Filmer (née Cecil, 4 April 1838 – 17 March 1903) was an early proponent of the art of photographic

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socialite, Lady Filmer produced several albums consisting of watercolour scenes decorated with

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s. One of her works (from the so-called ''Filmer Album'') depicts a drawing room, painted in watercolour, in which she has added photographic cut-outs from

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s. She positions herself next to a large figure of the

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, with whom she was known to flirt. Her albums and glue pot are set out on a large table beside her. Much smaller, Sir Edmund Filmer, her husband, is seated next to a pet dog. In 2010, the work was included in an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, which traveled to the

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, titled "Playing With Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage".Roberta Smith, "The Pastime of Victorian Cutups"
''The New York Times'', 4 February 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2013.

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* Examples of Mary Georgina Filmer's work from Luminous Lint {{DEFAULTSORT:Filmer, Mary Georgina Pioneers of photography 1838 births 1903 deaths British women photographers 19th-century English photographers 19th-century British women artists Wives of baronets British collage artists British women collage artists Photographers from London 19th-century women photographers