Carte de visite - portrait of an unidentified female and child

Sepia coloured photograph showing an unidentified adult female with a female child. Both subjects are seated. The woman is wearing a voluminous dark-coloured gown and is holding the hand of the child. The child is sat on a smaller chair next to the woman, is wearing a dark-coloured striped dress and is holding a doll in one hand, and he hand of the woman with the other. The photograph is affixed to a white card background which is branded 'H. Parker & Pape, landscape & general photographers, Leinster Chambers, St Ann's Square & 26 Lloyd Street, Greenheys, Manchester' to the rear. 'Experienced photographers sent out to any part of the Kingdom' and 'Enlargements from cartes de visite to life size' also written on the rear.