A charming group portrait here, two men and their devoted dog, looking quite comfortable to lie acro

A charming group portrait here, two men and their devoted dog, looking quite comfortable to lie across both laps - any struggling movement would have blurred the image but we see he is as sharply captured as his master and companion. This would have been taken in a professional studio, despite the misleadingly domestic background, which is in fact a skillfully painted backdrop - many scenery painters from the theatre found additional work with the emerging photographic trade.