Late 19th-century cabinet card portrait depicting a young girl seated beside a strikingly large doll nearly her height, both posed in an interior studio setting evoking a genteel parlor. The girl wears a dark, full-skirted dress typical of the 1890s and holds a woven basket of flowers in her lap, her solemn expression contrasting with the elaborate theatricality of the setting. Beside her stands an unusually tall, larger than life sized doll dressed in a white gown with extended train, lace trim, and tightly curled wig, its lifelike proportions and elaborate costume suggesting it was a prized possession, perhaps French in origin.

Photographed by Geo. E. Gibbs of No. 8 E. Genesee Street, Auburn, New York, the image features a serrated mount and verso inscription reading “To Gertie from Margie, 1892,” placing the card in the sentimental context of a Victorian gift or keepsake. The scale of the doll, the compositional formality, and the richly appointed backdrop lend the portrait a theatrical, almost surreal quality, transforming a child’s toy into a life-sized companion and evoking the blurred line between childhood fantasy and early photographic artifice.