Studio portrait of a woman in mourning, holding a white rose. Sydney, circa 1865.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 99 x 64 mm (mount); verso with the pictorial back mark in green of the Freeman Brothers Gallery of Photography, Sydney; the print and mount are in fine condition.

A superb study of a grieving woman, taken in the studio of James and William Freeman – arguably Sydney’s leading portrait photographers of the mid 1860s.