[Seated Young Woman Wearing a Shawl, Holding an Open Book in her Lap], 1850s

Daguerreotype; photographs. Date: 1850s. 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.). Medium: daguerreotype. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art.