Photographic portrait.
Rome : Fratelli D’Alessandri [27th May 1861]. 60 x 100 mm, carte-de-visite photograph of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in a voluminous full length black dress against a studio backdrop of a ruined building, blind-stamped at foot “ Flli. D’Alessandri Roma 65 Babuino”.
A copy of this photograph at Eton College is dated in Browning’s hand “27th May 1861”. She died a month later (29th June)
Stock No: HMF1740
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