Studio portrait of a young woman holding a carte de visite album, her white gloves placed in a wire “glove basket”. Ballarat, Victorian goldfields, c.1865.

A$80 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 94 x 64 mm; verso with imprint of Solomon Bardwell, Photographers, Ballarat contemporary inscription in ink: M. Strack ; the print has some mottling in the negative and some very light creasing at left edge.

• Binding: Hardcover

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