English Families: Unidentified London Family (1850s)


Figure 1.--This 1/4 plate ambro type has no information associated with it. We think we have the mother and her two children. The younger woman might be a daughter or perhaps an aunt. The boy look to be about 13-years old. He wears a suit withn vest that does not match. It looks to be a striped vest or perhaps corduroy. He has what looks like an Eton collar, although not a large one which he wears with a stock bow. loking somewhat like a large bow tie. Both women war similarly styled dresses, alhough with different fabric. Mother holds a plain straw hat. The younger wonman holds a book.

This 1/4 plate ambro type has no information associated with it (figure 1). We think we have the mother and her two children. The younger woman might be a daughter or perhaps an aunt. The boy look to be about 13-years old. He wears a suit withn vest that does not match. It looks to be a striped vesgtor perhaps corfuroy. Hehas what looks like an Eton collar, although not a large one which he wears with a stock bow. loking somewhat like a large bow tie. Both women war simuilarly styled dresses, alhough with different fabric. Motherholds a plain straw hat. The younger wonman holds a book. All have razor parts. Notice the boy's sharp hair part and hair combed down ovrr his upper ear. This is one of the few Englush cased Ambros that we have managed to find. The cased was elegabtly tooled leather, different from the cases we note in America. The studio was Negretti & Zambra, foreign sionding names. They had studios in Hatton Garden and Cornhill, London.







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