diff --git a/src/shapes/image.class.js b/src/shapes/image.class.js
index 2b237345..256e1894 100644
--- a/src/shapes/image.class.js
+++ b/src/shapes/image.class.js
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@
           filtered = true;
       markup.push(
         '<g transform="', this.getSvgTransform(), this.getSvgTransformMatrix(), '">\n',
-          '<image ', this.getSvgId(), 'xlink:href="', this.getSvgSrc(filtered),
+          '\t<image ', this.getSvgId(), 'xlink:href="', this.getSvgSrc(filtered),
             '" x="', x, '" y="', y,
             '" style="', this.getSvgStyles(),
             // we're essentially moving origin of transformation from top/left corner to the center of the shape
diff --git a/test/unit/image.js b/test/unit/image.js
index e05bd53a..675184df 100644
--- a/test/unit/image.js
+++ b/test/unit/image.js
@@ -204,6 +204,15 @@
     });
   });
 
+  asyncTest('toSVG', function() {
+    createImageObject(function(image) {
+      ok(typeof image.toSVG === 'function');
+      var expectedSVG = '<g transform="translate(138 55)">\n\t<image xlink:href="' + IMG_SRC + '" x="-138" y="-55" style="stroke: none; stroke-width: 0; stroke-dasharray: none; stroke-linecap: butt; stroke-linejoin: miter; stroke-miterlimit: 10; fill: rgb(0,0,0); fill-rule: nonzero; opacity: 1;" width="276" height="110"></image>\n</g>';
+      equal(image.toSVG(), expectedSVG);
+      start();
+    });
+  });
+
   asyncTest('getSrc', function() {
     createImageObject(function(image) {
       ok(typeof image.getSrc == 'function');