cabinet photograph

Summary

3/4 length portrait of 2 women against a painted studio backdrop of a stone pillar and drape. The woman on the left is seated, she has wavy hair worn in a chignon and she is wearing a black silk dress with a checked bodice with a high standing collar and neck pin and leg of mutton sleeves. She wears a white flower at her bodice, a watered silk sash belt and a plain narrow skirt. The woman beside her wears her hair on a chignon and she is wearing a black silk dress with a fitted bodice with a black satin centre front, white flower, high standing collar with round brooch and a triangular panel at the centre front extending over the shoulders with black satin edging. She has full leg of mutton sleeves and wears a plain, gored skirt.