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Description: | 3/4 length portrait of a seated old woman wearing mourning dress. The woman is seated on a velvet upholstered chair against a plain backdrop with a carved wooden and gold table to the left with a book on top. She wears her hair back in a chignon with a white widows cap with a neck veil. She is wearing a black wool and crape polonaise dress withn centre front covered buttons, a standing frill collar, fitted bodice and full length fitted sleeves with deep crape cuffs. Her dress is trimmed with a panel of crape from the neck to the skirt hem and she wears a large round silver brooch at her neck.
Material: cardboard
Material: paper | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.46132 | Go to resource |
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