Editorial comment for this plate:

STUDY OF A HEAD.

WE present our readers this week with another excellent specimen of portraiture. This time the subject is not a celebrity, though as an illustration of excellent portraiture it is as instructive as the Gutekunst portraits of eminent Americans, which we have had the pleasure of late to present to our friends. This study of a head is from a negative by A. P. Webb, a professional photographer of Youngstown, O., and is especially graceful in pose and pleasant in lighting. The young girl’s profuse and beautiful hair is skillfully treated and appears in our finished photogravure beautifully rendered. Altogether, this study of a head produces an agreeable impression upon the beholder without any straining after effect. It is an example of art concealed by art, which is the ideal we should all strive for in photography.

Alfred P. Webb: 1850-1927