Studio portrait of young woman in a fine dress, holding a carte de visite album. Melbourne, c.1865.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Johnstone, O’Shannessy & Co., Artist Photographers, 3 Bourke Street East, next the Post Office, Melbourne’; both the print and the mount are in excellent condition.

Provenance: From a family album belonging to Alexander Sloane (1829-1907) and his wife Annabella Helen (née Gibson, 1836-1920), of Mulwala and Savernake Stations, southern New South Wales; thence by descent.