ambrotype photograph

Summary

Two women are standing, and a third sits in front of them. The woman on the left wears a black hat, decorated in white, and a black dress with white cuffs. The woman on the right wears a light hat with a broad brim, turned up on one side, an decorated with artificial fruit. She wears a heavy gold chain and large round medallion. Her dress is black, with a high collar, close fitting body, and tight sleeves, with white cuffs. The seated woman wears a highly decorated dark hat, a dark bodice, decorated in broad white bands round the cuffs and up the centre of the bodice; she wears a white collar, and a large white piece of material pinned under the chin with a dark brooch.