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Young Woman in a Patterned Dress
1860s
- Medium
- daguerreotype with hand-applied color
- Classification
- Photograph
- Dimensions
- Image: 6.8 x 5.7 cm (2 11/16 x 2 1/4 in.); Case: 9.4 x 8.2 cm (3 11/16 x 3 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- America
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography
- Credit line
- Gift of Nina Rosenblum and Lisa Rosenblum
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Instead of expressing the sitter’s personality, the pose and composition are structured to draw attention to her prized possession: her best dress. The photographer employed a compositional formula and pose frequently chosen by photographers of that era to show off dresses made from fabric with complex, rhythmic geometric patterns.
