cabinet photograph

J A Draycott

Summary

Full length family group portrait of a man, a seated woman and a girl. Painted studio backdrop with a pillar and leaves. The woman is seated in the middle, she wears her hair in a chignon with a fringe of loose curls. She is wearing artistic dress with a light wool dress with a gathered bodice, leg of mutton sleeves and a floral embroidered panel down her centre front bodice. Her cuffs are trimmed with the same embroidery and she is holding a sheet of paper. The girl is stood behind her, she has long hair half worn up and she is wearing a light wool dress with a gathered bodice, frill collar and full length loose fitting sleeves gathered into a frill cuff. The man has neat side parted hair and a moustache and he is wearing a double breasted short check wool jacket with light wool trousers and a turned down collar with a light neck tie.