cabinet photograph

Cromack

Summary

3/4 length portrait of a man, 2 women and a boy. Painted studio backdrop of a stone structure with pillars. The man is standing at the back, he has receding hair and a thin moustache and beard. He is wearing a wool suit jacket and a cream striped waistcoat with a winged collar and a white necktie with a pin. The young woman seated in front of him wears her hair in a chignon and she is wearing a striped silk dress with a wide turned down collar, a standing collar and pleated bodice underneath and leg of mutton sleeves. She wears a string of pearls or white beads round her neck. The woman beside her wears her hair in a loose chignon and she is wearing a similar dress in dark silk and velvet. The boy is seated in front, he is wearing a 3 piece wool suit with knee length trousers, a rounded turned down collar and a black necktie. Worn with black stockings.