Formal portrait Treadwell and his two daughters against a sitting room backdrop. From left to right, Treadwell, approx. 55 years old, a light skinned man with a well-kept white beard and a bald pate, dressed in a dark suit, with one hand at his watch chain gazes into the middle distance to the right of the camera from his seat in an upholstered rolling armchair. His daughter Janet (approx. 21 years old) stands next to him in a light colored suit with puffed sleeves and a peplum jacket, her elbows out and her dark hair pulled back, looking placidly past the camera to the left. To her left sits her sister Hilda (approx. 19 years old), slouching slightly in a light colored suit and a ruffled shirt, her deep-set eyes looking directly into the camera. The center third of the image is in quite crisp focus, but Janet's face is slightly softer, as is the backdrop, lending a dreamy, unreal quality to the image.
Notes:
Framed opaltype (milk glass positive).
Cite As:
Eden George Co. Ltd. (New Zealand, 1880s-1890s), [Rev. James Treadwell with daughters Janet and Hilda], ca. 1890. Opalotype photograph, framed: 46 x 38 cm. Gift of Jill B. Treadwell, MPS 1973, and Donald Treadwell, MPS 1972, TR 10100.004.
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