[Girl Reading]

Title	[Girl Reading]
Artist	Unknown
Date	1870s 19th century
Medium	Albumen silver print
Classification	Photographs
Holding institution	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit line	Gift of Weston J. Naef, 1985
Rights	Public domain (CC0). Free to use for any purpose.

Subjects: Botanical illustration

About this artwork

“[Girl Reading]” is a work by Unknown, dated 1870s. It is executed in albumen silver print and classified as photographs. In this archive it sits within the botanical illustration tradition. This work is in the public domain (CC0), so the image may be downloaded and reused for any purpose without permission (see the licence note below).

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Dated to 1870s. Explore the wider set of works from the 19th century held in the archive.

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Made available through the The Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access programme, which explicitly places this work in the public domain.

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