Portret van een onbekende vrouw c. 1865 - 1900

This glass plate negative, created between 1865 and 1900, is a portrait of an unidentified woman by Dutch artist Laurens Lodewijk Kleijn. The image shows the woman standing, dressed in a long dress and hat, with a table and a draped cloth in the background. The negative, measuring 230 mm in height and 130 mm in width, demonstrates Kleijn's mastery of the photographic process, capturing a snapshot of fashion and portraiture during this period. This piece is an example of daguerreotype photography, a process popular in the 19th century that captured images on a silver-plated copper sheet.