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Portrait to the waist of A. R. Wallace aged 25, seated, turned slightly to the viewer's left, wearing spectacles. The image has been cut from a photograph and pasted onto a neutral background of purplish emulsion which has been applied to part of another larger photograph mounted on a card approximately 11.5 cm x 9 cm. The obscured photograph appears to be one of a miniature of one of A. R. Wallace's parents. "Crop" is written in pencil below a line on the left of the card. Annotations in pencil on the back of the card in an unknown hand , mostly crossed through, include "1557| Cop initials | 175 screen" and "150 tint". Notes: The portait, captioned "Alfred R. Wallace. 1848 | From a daguerrotype" is reproduced in A. R. Wallace's autobiography "My Life" (London 1905) vol. 1, facing p. 264. (In Raby (2002) it is reproduced reversed). |
