Thursday, March 18, 2010

'Nell Gwynne' (Effie Gray James (née Millais))




by Rupert Potter
albumen print, 7 June 1882
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait.php?search=ss&firstRun=true&sText=millais&LinkID=mp89637&rNo=0&role=sit

2 comments:

Lucy Corrander said...

Another jump-out-at-one image.

The arty types of that era were in a position to take photographs of their dressings-up but I believe a much wider band of society enjoyed dressing up too.

Lucy

Hermes said...

I can remember my Grandmother having sing songs round the piano, and she used to take part in little family plays all the time. Ah the days before tv.