carte-de-visite photograph

Summary

Full length studio portrait of a young woman against a plain background. The floor is patterned. A striped patterned curtain is draped across the right hand side of the scene and there is also an ornately decorated desk on the right of the scene on which is places a closed book. The woman rests her left hand on the book. The woman is shown in three quarter view facing towards the right. Her hair is arranged in a centre parting with a chignon at the nape of her neck. She is wearing a pale coloured and embroidered dress with a fitted and buttoned bodice and a full skirt with a flounced hem. She has a dark coloured lace shawl around her shoulders and a pendant on a dark ribbon around her neck.