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Description: | Full length group portrait of a man with 3 girls and a boy. Family portrait. The man has white wavy hair and a full beard and moustache, he is wearing a double breasted buttoned up frock coat, turned down collar and necktie and lighter wool trousers with lace up leather shoes. He is seated between the 2 girls.The girl on the left has long hair worn back, she is wearing a knee length silk dress with long sleeves pleated from the elbow to the sleeve head, the front of her dress is pleated to a high round neck with standing collar with a standing frill collar underneath. She wears a wide ribbon round her waist and her skirt is trimmed with rows of gathers, worn with ribbed stockings and leather shoes. The seated girl beside the boy is wearing the same dress and all 3 girls are wearing lockets and lace up leather shoes. The girl seated on the far right has short hair, she is wearing a knee length dress with smocking down the centre front and neck, her dress has a plain skirt with 3 pleats above the hem. The boy is standing between 2 of the girls, he is wearing a 3 piece suit with knee length trousers and black stockings. He has a handkerchief in his top pocket and he is wearing a turned down collar and necktie. Plain studio backdrop with a chair to the left.
Written on reverse in pen ' Lancelot 12 / Maud 11 / Ethel 9 / Maggie 8.'
See 2008.40.6.1536 for copy of this photograph
See 2008.40.6.1534-5 for the same family in a different pose
Material: cardboard
Material: paper | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.46805 | Go to resource |
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