Portrait by W G Helsby of Valparaiso, Chile. W.G.HELSBY is stamped in to cover above coat of arms with RETRATISTA VALPARAISO below

Bust of the Duke of Wellington

1841 copy of a painting by Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859)

1st Earl Spencer' written on verso, also scratched into verso 'The celebrated Earl Spencer'. Though it cannot be the first earl as he died before photography was invented.

Probably George Houghton who was partner to Claudet and founded Houghtons. Another view taken at the same sitting is number 28209. The pair may form a stereo pair for viewing in the Wheatstone stereo viewer. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry for Claudet (Houghton's partner) states, 'By 1842 he had made stereo daguerreotypes for Sir Charles Wheatstone.' It seems likely that the sitter for such experimental plates would be somebody who happened to be around at the time. The absence of a typical Claudet, Anglo-American style housing also points towards these plates being intended for the Wheatstone stereo viewer.