A very attractive and fashionable couple pose for their portrait at the Henry studio in Anvers, Belgium. The gentleman appears to be holding gloves. His top hat is visible on the table behind him. The lovely lady is wearing a beautiful dress and a fancy hat. She is also wearing white gloves and holding a bouquet of flowers. This image may be a wedding photograph. The backstamp of the cabinet card indicates that the photographer, Henry, was the winner of a photography medal at the World Exposition in 1894. Anvers, the home of Henry’s studio, was a port and financial center in northern Belgium. The city is located on the Scheldt river and was a center for the diamond industry. Anvers was also the home of the first stock exchange (1460). Anvers is the french name for Antwerp.
ATTRACTIVE AND FASHIONABLE COUPLE IN ANVERS (ANTWERP), BELGIUM
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She is wearing laces upon her hat an dress, which doesn’t mean only from Brussels but typical belgian, handmade very expensive, at that time probably some of the first industrial made-ones … looks as if the ones for the hat were traditonal-made, the ones upon the dress machine-made.