Yeghsapet Eramian

Photograph of Yeghsapet Eramian (née Stepanian), taken in a studio in 1898. She was the great-granddaughter of Sarkis Agha, and the daughter of Stepan Agha Krikorian and Heghine Boghossian (Philipposian). She was married to Boghos Eramian (1840-1918), who was a senior government official. Their first child was born in 1867. Yeghsapet died in Nicosia or in Dheftera in 1927. In the photograph the respectable, middle-aged lady is wearing a long wide skirt made from a dark-coloured material and a tailored, collared long jacket with slightly puffed long sleeves. The jacket is closed in front with a series of buttons. Both the skirt and the jacket are made of the same thick, shiny dark cloth. A black headscarf covers most of her brown hair.