Chief Baron Pollock' scratched on back, so could be Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet. BEARD PATENTEE stamped into mat. Wharton style case

Union case. Mat stamped ANSON 589 BROADWAY. Spring-loaded catch. Mat decoration is dotted line. Same sitter as 20896

see also 2003-5001/2/28064, 28067, 28068, 28097, 28139, 24351, 28151

Half length portrait of an elderly man. Hand-tinted, gold highlights on the arms of the chair in which he sits. Dark coat with broad lapels. dark waistcoat, Dutch beard, grey hair, balding.

An interior view within the Crystal Palace showing a Romanesque arch, two tomb monuments, double-benches, bas-relief carving. After housing the Great Exhibition in 1851 the Crystal Palace had been dismantled and rebuilt on a site at Sydenham, south east London, reopening in June 1854. The 'Palace of the People' as it became known, was at first a huge success as the world's first 'theme park'.