Colorized albumen print in its extremely rare leather Union Case with flaps
 Portrait of the English nobility
 circa 1860
 Cornelius Jabez Hughes (1819-1884) began his photographic career in 1847 as an assistant in the London studio of J.J.E. Mayall. After a brief period in Glasgow, he returned to London in 1855 to take over Mayall's studio. Hughes then built his own studio on the Isle of Wight, where he frequently photographed Queen Victoria. Towards the end of his life, he partnered with his assistant, Gustav Mullins, to form a new firm, Hughes & Mullins. Hughes was renowned both as a portrait photographer and as a writer on photography.
 The National Portrait Gallery in London owns some of his photographs.