Three quarter length portrait of a boy, standing, his right hand resting on a small table covered with a decorative cloth. A large book sits on the table.

Inscribed 'taken around 1851' in a later hand Probably by Carl Ferdinand Stelzner.

Campo Vacino a Rome.

Note on back of case 'Mr. Fred Holmes. Inventor of Dynamo for Lighthouses'. Frederick Hale Holmes pioneered the electrical illumination of lighthouses in the 1850s and 60s. He was the first to use a magneto to supply an arc lamp, in 1853. In 1856, he patented a system to use the magneto to light a lighthouse, which was demonstrated to Faraday in 1857 at Blackwall. Reference: Bowers, B. A History of Electric Light and Power. London: Peter Peregrinus, 1991.

Crystal Palace interior view of a sculpture court with a bench and two columns. About 5 sculptures are visible on plinths including the Discobolos from the Vatican and the Laocoon