C. 1880s British Cabinet Card of Handsome Young Strongman mane This Botany notebook from 1823

This Botany notebook from 1823 is the humblest looking from the outside with just a simple brown paper cover

Very good condition  one spot on cover

Signed (incised) in Japanese on the underside

4 5/8" tall x 1 3/4" wide and deep

sorrowful expression on his hand-painted face

C. 1880s British Cabinet Card of Handsome Young Strongman mane This Botany notebook from 1823My knowledge of 19th c. photographic conventions doesn't tell me for sure whether this muscular bare chested young man was a boxer, or wrestler, or a sideshow strongman, but I might guess the latter based on what one can see of his pants and belt, which appear informal rather than any sort of uniform. The cabinet card is stamped Liverpool (England) on the reverse, but I must say that the aura like ring of patterning around him, a fabric backdrop I