“Darling Lad”

Annotated "Alice” in one hand; “Darling Lad. 1873. Not to be taken away” in another.

Carte de visite by Hills & Saunders, the studio founded by Robert Hills (1821-1882) at Oxford in 1856; John Henry Saunders (1836-1890) became a partner in 1860. The studio had branches in London; Cambridge as well as Oxford; Eton College and Harrow School; and the military academies at Aldershot and Sandhurst. Today, only the branch at Eton survives.