Studio portrait of British artist John Gilbert (1817-1897). London, late 1860s.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); recto and verso with the imprint of Elliott & Fry, 55 Baker Street, Portman Square; verso also has a pencilled inscription in period hand ‘John Gilbert’; in superb condition.

An outstanding example of what is arguably the finest photographic portrait of the illustrator and painter Sir John Gilbert (1817-1897).