Editorial Comment for this plate:

“A PORTRAIT STUDY.”

As its name indicates, our illustration this week is a picture which all portraitists may study with profit. The pose, the lighting, and the arrangement of details in this “portrait study,” are all worthy of the sincerest flattery — imitation! Mr. Falk, the artist, is here at his best; but undoubtedly much credit is due to the intelligence and beauty of the subject, as well as to the skill of the artist, for the happy result. The charming picture has met with the greatest sale, which is, perhaps, after all, the best test of merit. As one of “The Twelve Photographic Studies,” it also gained an immediate and wide-spread favor. It is not often we can give our readers so good an example of portraiture. The original of the picture is Miss Isabella Irving, of Daly’s excellent Theatrical Company, and she is here depicted in one of her charming ingenue parts in which she is not to be excelled on the American stage. (p. 103)

Isabel Irving: 1871-1944, was an American stage actress.