Different Lives, Early 20th C. Portrait of Two Men with Victorian Wicker RPPC carrying caddy but this one has no

but this one has no function other than to sit around looking sweet

all the better for the precisely painted little eyes

I love the fact that making these represented not just a burgeoning interest in the natural world

what an amazing set they would have made

Different Lives, Early 20th C. Portrait of Two Men with Victorian Wicker RPPC carrying caddy but this one has noI 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