The subject of this print is journalist and novelist Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1846-1881). He is best known as the author of the novel 'For the term of his natural life', a fictional account of Australian convict life, published in serial form between 1870 and 1872 and as a novel in 1874.

This print appears as 'Marcus Clark' on page 790 of the 'Picturesque Atlas of Australasia.'