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Description: | Full length portrait of a young boy and girl leaning against a fence against a painted studio backdrop of a corn field. The boy is wearing a dark suit with knee length trousers, turned down collar and neck tie tied in a bow. Worn with a black bowler hat and black stockings. The girl beside him is wearing a dark knee length wool dress with a pleated frill at hem and a wide self fabric sash belt. Her collar and cuffs are finished with a lace trim and her dress fastens centre front with brass buttons. She is holding a cricket bat and a ball and she wears a boater hat.
Written on the reverse in ink "Taken 1885 / reprinted some 30 years / later. / Bar, trap & ball is the / game we used to play. / My brother, 1 1/2 years older / than me, has the trap / While I have collared the bat & ball!"
Material: cardboard
Material: paper | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.49649 | Go to resource |
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