# Young Woman in a Patterned Dress

- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Nina Rosenblum and Lisa Rosenblum
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2024.16)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2024.16/2024.16_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.