SILHOUETTE:
Among the Loans Exhibits is this picture, done in silhouette and
delicate line, of a well-known South Island family. It was made, of course, in England before the journey was considered and before the camera was invented. But it gives an excellent impression, doesn’t it, of how life was lived in that day-very circumspectly and industriously. Our ancestors considered caps becoming to everyone over the mature age of sixteen. It’s fairly obvious from the mere comb head-dress and frivolous sleeves of the figure at the piano that she is very much the " younger daughter." It is not to be imagined that she is an only child in an age when less than thirteen was a miserable brood! But how clothes conscious were our men. What terrific dignity those long tails lent to the mere male-and little boys’ " mischief" amounted to nothing more than dropping a sweet cake into the jaws of an immaculate small dog! Note, too, the patterning of the carpet, the draped and fringed curtains and the mathematical balance of the pictures on the walls.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 19, 3 November 1939, Page 15
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