portrait of Edward David Evans, eldest son of Edward Evans of Great Queen Street London, at 24 years of age, taken at the studio of Sabatier Blot in Paris in 1842. Daguerreotype with Blot label verso, the description and signature in ink on the label written by E D Evans at a slightly later date as it gives his Strand address. The Daguerreotype is in lower half of original silk lined red Morocco case case, Daguerreotype plate 11.4cm x 9cm.

Biographical Note: A E Evans were printsellers and publishers in business from 1819 to 1864, father (Edward Evans 1789–1835), later the son (Edward David Evans 1818–1860) with his mother Anne E Evans and latterly his brother Albert. The premises at the Strand were first occupied in 1853 according to Wikipedia but no citation given.