#framed and mounted
A pair of Victorian gentlemen, resplendent in their fine clothing (I especially like the waistcoats, and the charming lack of formality in leaving so many buttons unbuttoned), posing together for a refreshingly relaxed double portrait. Such character to be seen when the subjects dispense with the standard stiff seriousness of pictures in this era.
Such a soft spot for this photo.
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For all those enthusiasts of the peculiarities and extraordinary eccentricities of mens’ swimwear in times gone by! Photographed near the beach of Coney Island, August the 15th, 1907 - all that is left lacking is the names for this pair sharing a seaside souvenir picture. One appears chipper and confident, while the other seems less certain about sitting before the camera!
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One a soldier and one a civilian in this picture sent in by our frequent contributor, Alan, who submitted the cropped copy included above - in my attempt to discover the origin (unknown) and date (1902), I have found the larger unaltered original, and as you will know if you’ve followed the progress of this collection for some time, I am awfully enamoured of edges and inordinately fond of frames, and could not resist the completeness of the full picture. However I must admit the modern tampering performed has done wonders for the brightness and clarity, therefore you have the pleasure of seeing it twice today!
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Though small this is a quite quite marvellous little mounted photograph, their sweetly frivolous pose of resting elbows and some splendid outfits indeed (I’m particularly partial to a nice check coat), and I do believe I detect a touch of pink blush on the left-hand fellow’s cheek!
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Note the sweetly hand-pinked cheeks of the well-dressed sitters in this 1850s Daguerreotype, beautifully framed in the original gilt protective case.
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