cabinet photograph

Ferd Urbahns

Summary

Full length vignette portrait of a woman with an infant. Mother and child. The woman is seated on a wooden chair with embroidered upholster and fringes. She has wavy hair worn in a chignon and she is wearing a dark velvet dress with a fitted bodice, full length sleeves and a low wide neckline with embroidered white flowers. She has a lace insert underneath with a high collar and pleated front panel. The infant is wearing a long white gown with short puffed sleeves and embroidered trim. Written on reverse in pen ' For Aunt Grace / From Lilla and Sydney v Grumbkow / First of June / 1899.'