(Mrs. Bernard, née Fanny Mary Whitbread, 1856-1915, Actress)]
Unsigned Portrait Cabinet Photo, by J. E. Mayall, of London & Brighton,
showing her head and shoulders, three quarter face to the left, as Bathsheba in Far From the Madding Crowd, in a simple dress with large white collar, 6½ x 4¼, no place, dated on the verso
Mayall's advertisement on the verso ('established 1840') has attractive lettering in all sorts of styles. John Jabez Edwin Paisley MAYALL (1813 -1901) was an English photographer who in 1860 took the first carte-de-visite photographs of Queen Victoria.