Studio portrait of an Aboriginal man holding his hat. Adelaide, 1864-65.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 62 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Photographed by Anson & Francis, Adelaide Photographic Institution, 97 Rundle Street’; the albumen print with dark tones; some very light foxing, bottom corner of mount chipped.

A striking full-length portrait of an unidentified sitter posing shirtless, but with European trousers, boots and hat, taken in the studio of the photographic firm of Henry Anson and William Augustus Francis.