Studio portrait of a teenage boy. Sydney, circa 1880.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount), verso with imprint of J. Hubert Newman, Photographer, Oil and Crayon Painter etc., No. 12 Oxford Street, Hyde Park, Sydney, N.S.W.; both the print and mount are in excellent condition.

A superb head-and-shoulders portrait of a scholarly looking adolescent, no doubt a scion of one of Sydney’s elite families.