Unidentified sitter

A carte-de-visite portrait of an unidentified sitter, presumably an actress or perhaps a partygoer in fancy dress.

A pencilled inscription verso in a period hand gives the date, March 1876.

Photographed by the Southwell Brothers at their studio in South London. The address given recto and verso is 23 Oakfield Road, Penge.

In April 1877 the Southwell Brothers began running advertisements that listed their most illustrious clients and then mentioned that 'Carte de Visites [sic] are now taken at their new Branch Studios / 23, Oakfield Road, Penge, Tunbridge Wells, and / 27, North End, Croydon.'