Photograph: A Family Scene

Name/Title

Photograph: A Family Scene

Entry/Object ID

P3101

Description

One sepia colored photograph depicting a room setting with a young woman playing a piano, a girl standing to her left playing a violin, and a young boy standing to her right. In the background, two young girls stand next to a man laid out on a couch. A woman sits in the foreground with a young child on her lap. The photograph is mounted on a grey mat. This image serves as a post-mortem photograph; the man on the couch is deceased.

Made/Created

Notes

Support: PAPER Photographic, Cardboard, Ink, Photography, Photography

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Transcription

"Whellan"

Notes

Written in pencil on the back of the photograph.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Positive, Direct

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Photograph, Photograph, Communication Artifacts

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Photograph

Dimensions

Height

27.8 cm

Width

35.4 cm