Fine unsigned Carte-de-visite Portrait Photo, by Mayall, hand tinted,
showing the Queen, full length, three quarter face to the left, standing by the right of a curtained pillar, in a dark dress and large lace shawl, her hands crossed, her left holding her fan, 4¼ x 2½, no place, no date but March 1st,
On the verso is the contemporary green ticket of W. Weddell at the Edinburgh Bible Warehouse, 48 South Bridge, Edinburgh.John Jabez Edwin Paisley MAYALL (1813 -1901) was an English photographer who in 1860 took the first carte-de-visite photographs of Queen Victoria.