This iconic image of a bagged <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/thylacine" class="extiw" title="w:thylacine">thylacine</a></i> featuring Mr. Weaver in a studio portrait is repeatedly published yet it is not attributed. It may have been taken by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Albert_Prout" class="extiw" title="w:Victor Albert Prout">Victor Prout</a> who sojourned briefly in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmania" class="extiw" title="w:Tasmania">Tasmania</a> in the late 1860s but is known and praised for his excellent panoramas of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Harbour" class="extiw" title="w:Sydney Harbour">Sydney Harbour</a> by contemporary photohistorians.
Victor Prout?
1869
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Additional confirmation of image: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://books.google.es/books?id=68uqzvT4nPgC&amp;pg=PA161&amp;lpg=PA161&amp;sig=ipXQ8-NXIXXgU9yoVJV1Cp6cKRg">https://books.google.es/books?id=68uqzvT4nPgC&amp;pg=PA161&amp;lpg=PA161&amp;sig=ipXQ8-NXIXXgU9yoVJV1Cp6cKRg</a>