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These three Scottish children look like they were photographed in the 1870s. The portrait is marked 'Peacocks Maggie, George'. This is confusing because there are three children pictured, a girl, baby, and boy. Peacocks or Peacock would seem to be their family name. There are a variety of possibilties. A reader some possibilities, "My guess, and it is only a guess, is that Peacock refers to the children being all dressed up and I suspect that Maggie is the baby in the arms of some servant maybe a governess." Our reader adds, "The more I look at the image the more I think they needed someone to hold the baby to me seems more like a prop than as well dressed as the other two children. Just my guess." The boy is obviously George and looks to be about 5 years old. Maggie could be the girl or the baby. They look to be about 1-14 years old. George's velvet suit is decorated in heavy embroidered frogging. This was especially common on fancy 19th century military uniforms. We see it being used on boys' clothing, escpecially in the 1870s. Of course the boys' frogging is not as fancy as that on uniforms. The embrodered decoration is continued on his knee pants. George has a modest white collar and a cross tie. The gir's dress has a large lace collar. The studio was JAS Howie in Edinburgh. Howie's studio was located on Princess Street meaning that he was an upscale photographer.
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