[Mary Anne Stephen, ca. 1865 - photographic portrait]

MIN 197

series

ca. 1865 (dated from costume)

Graphic Materials, Photographs

441647

Photographs - 1/4 plate ambrotype, hand-coloured, in pinchbeck frame with glass front, stored inside red velvet-lined Eickmeyer case with gold painted trim along outside edges, hinged lid (that is broken), and brass clasp for closing mechanism. - 9.1 x 6.4 cm. image (sight); 11.7 x 9.6 x 1.3 cm. (closed case)

Mary Anne Severn (nee Stephen) was the ninth child of Sir Alfred Stephen and his second wife Eleanor -- Reference: Think of Stephen : a family chronicle / by R. Bedford. Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1954.

The subject of this portrait stands beside a dressing table with a mirror. She is dressed in a white broderie anglaise dress that has a pink sash at the waist and pink ribbons at the shoulders, and wears black satin shoes with overties and squared toes. Underneath the dress is a crinoline (petticoat) and pink slip.