Old Portrait Photography Studio

A portrait studio panelled in warm wood centres on three large bellows cameras standing on splayed wooden tripods before a painted backdrop of trees, hills and open sky. Oval and gilt frames of stiff-collared sitters cover the walls, alongside small portraits, a landscape painting and a price card for fine portraiture. A woman in a dark green dress and white apron works at the right-hand counter beside developing trays, tongs, jars and stacked yellow boxes. A glazed cabinet at left holds chemical bottles, spare lenses and mounted prints; leather-bound albums sit above it. In the foreground a burgundy button-backed chair, an oil lamp with a lit flame, and a vase of pink and red flowers stand on a patterned rug, loose photographs beside a soft brush. The green backdrop cuts a clean rectangle through all that brown.