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Description: | 3/4 length studio group portrait of 4 women, 4 men and 4 children. The older man and woman are seated with the children and the young woman. The others are standing behind. They are all dressed in formal attire. The 4 men are wearing doublebreasted frock coats with turned down collars and neckties. 3 of the men have side whsikers, beards and moustaches, the other is cleanshaven. The 3 young women are wearing day dresses, front fastening with high necks and white frills at the neck and cuffs. Their hair is worn in a chignon and 2 of them have brooches at their neck. The seated older woman has her hair tied back in a chignon with a cloth cap on top.She is wearing a formal day dress, front fastening with an apron over skirt and decorative gathers. Her skirt is pleated and she wears a brooch at her neck, there is a white frill round her neck and cuffs. The small children beside her are wearing long sleeved dresses with high round necks with a white frill underneath and pintucks down the front. The child in the middle is wearing a similiar dress with long puffed sleeves and buttons down the centre front. Painted studio backdrop of interior with picture frames, light and a doorway.
Material: cardboard
Material: paper | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.46751 | Go to resource |
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