[Woman in Robes Reading a Book] 1870

This is a portrait photograph titled "[Woman in Robes Reading a Book]" by Julia Margaret Cameron, a renowned British photographer, and is currently part of the collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The image shows a woman, likely from the Victorian era, dressed in robes while reading a book. Cameron was known for her dramatic and soft-focus style in portraiture, which gave her works a sense of timelessness and ethereal beauty. This work exemplifies her signature style, with the subject's face softened and the details of the book obscured.