Incredible CDV of Beautiful Young Ladies with Elegant Tinting

Incredible CDV of Beautiful Young Ladies with Elegant Tinting and R. H. Dewey Backmark. The portrait depicts two young women posed closely together in a studio setting, a common intimate composition for sisters, close friends, or relatives during the Victorian era. They wear fashionable low-necked bodices with ruffled or lace-trimmed collars and decorative buttons or brooches at the center front. The dresses appear to have fitted waists and lighter-colored fabrics (possibly silk or wool blends), consistent with day or semi-formal attire of the period.
 
Their hairstyles are particularly telling:
•  The woman on the left has long hair styled in elaborate braids or plaits, adorned with what appear to be blue ribbons or bows woven in (possibly blue-dyed fabric strips or silk).
 
•  The woman on the right has her hair dressed up with a prominent pink floral accent, likely a fabric flower or ribbon rosette, and wears dangling earrings and a choker-style necklace.
 
This hairstyle—elaborate braiding, ribbons, and floral additions—aligns well with 1860-70s.