Studio portrait of a young boy seated on a high-backed chair, holding a spade. Adelaide, South Australia, circa 1876.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘H. Jones, Photographer. Opposite Whites Rooms, King William Street, Adelaide / Awarded Society of Arts Prize for Portraits of Children’; both print and mount are in fine condition.

Henry Jones mentioned his Society of Arts Prize for Portraits of Children in newspaper advertisements during the second half of 1876. From February 1877, his advertisements (and presumably carte de visite back mark) added the patronage statement ‘Photographer to His Excellency the Governor’.