A carte-de-visite portrait of the comic actor John Lawrence Toole (1832-1906), seen here as Azucena in Ill-Treated Il Trovatore.
A burlesque by Henry James Byron of Verdi's opera, it was first produced at the Adelphi in May 1863.
Photographed by Bausch and Bensley of Ludgate Hill, London.
[From an album compiled by the actor and author Charles Daly.]