Half-length portrait of a seated man, eyes appear closed, dark bags under eyes as if sleepy or sick.

An interior view of the Byzantine Court in the Crystal Palace. 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'.

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

First of a series of four images held in a single housing. / A rare daguerreotype image of a dwarf.

¾ length portrait of a fairly young woman standing facing to her left. Her left arm rests on a piece of furniture and her right holds a piece of lace draping down from that. She wears a dark dress with a boat neckline trimmed with lace. Her necklace, earrings, frontal brooch down her bodice, rings and bracelets are highlighted in gold paint, whole hand coloured. Curtain in background on left.