cabinet photograph

Isaac Preston's Art Studio

Summary

Full length group portrait of a woman with 4 children. The woman is seated, she has centre parted hair worn in a chignon, she is wearing a patterned dress with a fitted bodice, long sleeves and a decorative lace collar and lace trimmed cuffs. Her dress fastens centre front with buttons and has gathers down each side into a skirt with rows of frills at the hem and a flounce with a scalloped edge. The small boy is wearing a wool suit with knee length trousers and buttons down the centre front with a white collar and a necktie tied in a bow. He has stockings and leather boots with buttons. The small girl seated on the floor has centre parted hair and a hair band, she is wearing a long sleeved wool dress and drawers.Her dress has 2 rows of lace trim running down the centre front with buttons, she has a wide pleated skirt, stockings and leather boots with buttons. The older girl has plaited hair and is wearing a long dress with a high round neck, long sleeves and rows of smocking down the centre front, cuffs and hem of the skirt. The other girl has half her hair worn up and she is wearing the same dress. Painted studio backdrop with a window, patterned wallpaper and a drape to the left. Basket of flowers to the right. See 2008.40.6.1506 for the same photograph