Victorian family portraits photography

The Figments project is a project that was on my wishlist for a long time. It’s a story about one room through different time periods and with different residents. For this project, I started building a set in my studio based around a room with a window – inspired by the window Vermeer used in his paintings.

Victorian Family Photo

In them we can trace the history of love—Nicholas and Alexandra as betrothed, then as husband and wife, and then with their firstborn child. Finally we see them all—as we see them depicted on icons.

This cabinet card portrait features a lovely couple photographed by the McLane studio in Homestead, Pennsylvania. The couple are attractively dressed and well groomed. The woman has a lovely figure…

Although fashion did not embrace the look of trousers on the female form until the late 20th century, history saw working women wearing them a hundred years prior. From Victorian coal miners who rolled up their skirts around their waist to reveal soot-covered pants underneath to today’s terrible backlash of factory-torn denim, spandex jeggings, and bedazzled bums, women’s pants have undergone quite a transformation. Let’s take a look at the early fashion of women’s pants from the festooned…

View Portrait of a couple (1886) By Cabane Édouard; Original canvas; 70 x 50 cm; Signed; Edition. Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

1886.12.13 John Simon Hodge and Mary Ann (Griffin) and Irene Northey. #Northey #genealogy

There is no indication of the photographer for this family portrait. It appears to be a family of 2 brothers and 3 sisters with their Mother and Father. Would one of the daughters be Birdie? See my scan of a pencil drawing of Birdie. Date 1890's This cabinet card is from the Birdie Kuvek Photo Album. presented to her from her sincere friends in business on her birthday 23rd April 1901