On the Staircase

George Goodwin Kilburne 1839 - 1924

Summary

Interior scene of an afluent young woman dressed in a white dress, carrying a baby in her left arm. The subject stands at the foot of a staircase, about to descend the bottom step onto a thick rug on the floor below; her her right hand rests on the banister for support. There is a houseplant in a large vase on a stand beneath the banister to the left.