Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Unknown man NPG Ax196818

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Jabez Edwin Mayall

Born in 1813, John Jabez Edwin Mayall, né Jabez Meal, opened a daguerreotype studio in Philadelphia in the early 1840s. He soon moved to Britain where he helped to establish the American Daguerreotype Association in London. In 1851 he set up his own studio in London, photographing Queen Victoria and members of the royal family throughout the 1860s. Mayall became famous with his cartes-de-visite of the Queen and H.R.H. the Prince Consort, which sold tens of thousands of copies. Mayall left London for... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.