Amongst Bill Brandt's best known portraits is one showing Francis Bacon at night, lit by old street lamps, on Primrose Hill in North London. The present print, in contrast, is almost unknown and is the only known print.

Undated, it comes from the beginning of the 1950s, judging by the subject's relative youthfulness. It was published in the American edition of Harpers Bazaar in 1952, but appears not to have been exhibited until its inclusion in Francis Bacon and Henry Moore: Terror and Beauty, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada, 2014.

Another photograph by Brandt, with what appear to be the same pair of binoculars, Eaton Square still life, is dated circa 1948.

We are grateful to the Francis Bacon Foundation for their assistance in cataloguing this work.