Portrait of John Forrest, explorer of Western Australia, 1874

This is a black-and-white photographic portrait of the Western Australian surveyor and explorer John Forrest holding a rifle, dressed in the clothes he wore in the field, shown against a painted backdrop. The photograph measures 18.7 cm x 13.0 cm on a mount measuring 29.6 cm x 21.8 cm and its title comes from an inscription on the reverse. The printed inscriptions on the front read, from left to right, 'Talma & Co.', 'Talma type', '119 Swanston St. and at Sydney'. The portrait is signed 'John Forrest, 1874' in ink.