[Young Woman with Elbow Resting on Small Pile of Books and Head on Hand]
1840s
Daguerreotype with applied color
6.6 × 5.3 cm (2.6 × 2.1 in)
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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026
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