Fine unsigned Carte-de-visite Portrait Photo, by Mayall,
showing the Queen, full length, three quarter face to the left, standing by a curtained pillar, in a dark dress and large lace shawl, her hands crossed, her left holding her fan, 4 x 2½, no place, no date but March 1st,
An old pencilled note on the verso remarks that the photo is 'pirated', Mayall's name and the date having been removed from the image.John Jabez Edwin Paisley MAYALL (1813 -1901) was an English photographer who in 1860 took the first carte-de-visite photographs of Queen Victoria.