cabinet photograph

Brown & Draycott

Summary

Full length group portrait of a man, 2 young boys and 2 girls. Family portrait. Vignette. The man is standing beside a hand cart with a boy and girl seated on the cart and the other boy holding it, the girl is standing beside her father. The man has white side parted hair and a full beard, moustache and side whiskers. He is wearing a buttoned up double breasted frock coat with a winged collar and a necktie, worn with lace up shoes or boots. The children are all dressed in sailor type suits. The boys wear knee length trousers with stockings and lace up leather shoes. The older girl has long hair worn back with a headband, she wears a sailor type dress with a wide belt, the other girl seated on the cart wears the same dress, she has short hair and spectacles and she is holding a brimmed hat. The boy on the back of the cart is wearing a wide brimmed hat. Painted studio backdrop of a garden scene. See 2008.40.6.1534 & 2008.40.6.1536-7 for the same family in a different poses.