b&w photograph; nitrate
Good condition: brown stain left of chair, and at top and bottom of plant on right side, white and black flecks throughout, top right corner bent and frayed, with crease along top left side. Size with mat 18.8 cm x 12.9 cm, top right corner of mat torn, and top edge torn
Portrait of Cardinal Francesco Salesio della Volpe seated beside a plant, and wearing clerical garb.
Typed under photo: 'Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year 1897, by Frederick Lyonde, at the Department of Agriculture.' Embossed in lower right corner of mat: 'Photograph by Lyonde, Toronto Can.' Written in pencil on reverse: 'Card Murry del Val'. In General and Historical Records della Volpe fonds.