[Seated Young Woman Wearing a Shawl, Holding an Open Book in her Lap]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Photographs

[Seated Young Woman Wearing a Shawl, Holding an Open Book in her Lap]

Unknown

Date
1850s
Medium
Daguerreotype with applied color
Dimensions
Image: 7.1 x 5.7 cm (2 13/16 x 2 1/4 in.) Plate: 8.3 x 7 cm (3 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.) Case: 1 x 9.2 x 8.1 cm (3/8 x 3 5/8 x 3 3/16 in.)
Object type
Daguerreotype
Classification
Photographs
Object number
2015.400.13
Credit line
Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008

Artist information

American

Subjects and terms

  • Portraits
  • Women

The Met object ID 291766. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.