cabinet photograph

F Valery

Summary

Full length group portrait of 2 women and 2 girls. Painted studio backdrop of a staircase with flowers. The 2 girls have long curled hair and short staight fringes and they are both wearing knee length dark velvet dresses with leg of mutton sleeves, round frill collars and gathered centre fronts. The girl on the left is holding a basket of white flowers and both girls are wearing black stockings and buttoned up leather boots. The older woman is seated on a long white bench, she is wearing a black lace bonnet and a dark wool and silk dress with a standing collar and full length, narrow sleeves with velvet embroidered cuffs. The younger woman has a curly fringe and a white hat and she is wearing a maids uniform with a dark wool dress, a standing collar and full length sleeves with a gathered sleeve head. Worn with a white apron.