Photograph of Hariot Dufferin: a full length portrait, standing, and looking to her right, wearing a lace cap attached with wide ribbons, a tight-fitting dress with ruched skirt and trimmed with velvet. She stands next to a screen, curtains and a footstool, with a painted background. Signed by the sitter.

Hariot was a campaigner for women's medical care and midwifery in India, raising funds to train women doctors and provide health care for Indian women. Her husband, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood was Governor-General of Canada from 1871-9, and then worked in Russia and Constantinople, and finally becoming Viceroy of India from 1884-8. Hariot wrote a number of memoirs about her life in Canada, Russia and India.