Title: [Seated Young Woman Wearing a Shawl, Holding an Open Book in her Lap]
Object type: Daguerreotype
Date: 1850s
Artist:  Unknown 
Artist bio: American
Artist role: Artist
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.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008
Department: Photographs
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Portraits, term: Women