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Description: | Full length landscape studio portrait of a family of 9. There is a middle aged man and woman seated in the centre with 4 children, a young man and 2 young women standing behind. The child on the left is wearing a dress with panels of velvet trim down the front and a high neck with velvet trim and a lace frill, there are 2 small flounces at the hem and the dress fastens centre front with buttons. The child is wearing pantaloons underneath and long socks with lace up shoes. The seated man has centre parted hair and a beard and moustache. He is wearing a morning suit with a necktie. The child on his lap is the youngest and is wearing a dress with short sleeves and a white frill trim with socks and lace up leather boots. The seated woman has centre parted hair worn in a chignon. She is wearing a formal day dress with a long bodice and a gathered skirt. Her bodice is front fastening and buttons up to a high neck with a white frill, she has long narrow sleeves with bands of gathers below the shoulder. The 2 children to the left have short dark hair and fringes, they are dressed in identical silk spotted dresses with high necks with white frills, long sleeves and ruffles at the hem, worn with black stockings and lace up shoes. The 2 young women standing behind are wearing formal day dresses with high collars and white frills with a brooch at the neck and long narrow sleeves with decorative gathers. Their hair is worn up in a chignon. The young man on the right has neat side parted hair and is wearing a buttoned up suit jacket with a turn down collar and a small checked cravat fastened with a pin. There is a mock wall to the right and a short pillar to the left, painted backdrop with trees and a window.
Material: cardboard
Material: paper | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.46750 | Go to resource |
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