Royalty
[VICTORIA
(1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain)]
Fine unsigned Carte-de-visite Portrait Photo, by Mayall,
showing the Queen, full length, almost full face but demurely looking down, standing to the left of a curtained pillar, in a dress with a dark top and large light-coloured crinoline with horizontal stripes, her hands together and holding a lace handkerchief, with a patterned shawl on her left arm, 4¼ x 2½, no place, dated in the image March 1st,
Item Date: 1861
Background
John Jabez Edwin Paisley MAYALL (1813 -1901) was an English photographer who in 1860 took the first carte-de-visite photographs of Queen Victoria.
very slight bump in top left corner, barely touching dark background
Stock No. 55445