Portrait from 'Vanity Fair' with the original desciptive text.
Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB (1817 - 1894) was a British traveller, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, author, politician and diplomat.
He is best known for his work as an Assyrian archaeologist.
A couple of soft vertical creases (exaggerated in the scan).