Different Lives, Early 20th C. Portrait of Two Men with Victorian Wicker RPPC indexical photos They are in good overall

They are in good overall condition

with wonderful attention and a certain committed precision given to each tree

giving it a sense of movement and also

carefully whittled

Different Lives, Early 20th C. Portrait of Two Men with Victorian Wicker RPPC indexical photos They are in good overallI find this photograph very beautiful, and poignant I presume a father and son, though perhaps brothers, the elder in what appears to be the attire of a tradesman or laborer, the younger carefully groomed and wearing a pinstriped suit, suggesting very different sorts of lives and livelihoods but with their hands, side by side in similar positions, together gripping the same ornate Victorian piece of wicker furniture in front of them. A wonderfully