Figure 1.--Percy here looks about 5 years old. Perhaps he is not quite 5, but we suspect he is almost 5 or has turned 5 years old. The portrait is dated 1880, but as we mentioned, we are unsure what that means. Again Percy has a dressed with elaborate lace work atound the collar and worked up as a kind of front dress decoration. T Image coutesy of the RG collection.

Percy here looks about 5 years old. Perhaps he is not quite 5, but we suspect he is almost 5 or has just turned 5 years old. The portrait is dated 1880, but as we mentioned, we are unsure what that means. W have genweally presented the portraits of Percy as 1880s images, but this and some of the others it seem to us have a 1870s look. Again Percy has a dressed with elaborate lace work atound the collar and worked up as a kind of front dress decoration. The dress in done with two materials. There is a dark overay, but I am unsure about the color. The overlay has a lot of fancy work, unusual in boy dress, especially a boy by 5 years of age. Underneath it looks like black velvet. The Lace is repeaed at the sleeve cuffs. He wears the dress with black long stockings. Also notice the necklace. Percy's hair has been allowed to grow longer. He still has the girlish center part. There are no props with this portrait. I must sy that if I was viewing ths portrait without any identification, I probanly would have concluded that the child was a girl.