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Young Woman in a Patterned Dress
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineYoung Woman in a Patterned Dress, 1860s. America. Daguerreotype with hand-applied color; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Nina Rosenblum and Lisa Rosenblum, 2024.16
