cabinet photograph

Summary

1/2 length vignette portrait of a woman against a plain white studio backdrop. She has curled, frizzed hair worn in a chignon and she is wearing a light wool dress with a standing collar and decorative pin and full length sleeves with kick up pleats at the shoulder seam. She wears a fitted bodice made up of one side of plain wool and the other of detailed braid embroidery in a floral design. Her sleeve cuffs are decorated with braid embroidery. Written on reverse in pencil ' S. Le N Parkes / Mrs Louis C Parkes / 1890.'