Lady, Standing 1843 - 1847

"Lady, Standing" is a calotype photograph taken by the partnership of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson between 1843 and 1847. It is a portrait of an unnamed woman, standing in a room, partially obscured by furniture and an elaborately patterned shawl. The image captures the beauty and detail of the calotype process, which was a groundbreaking photographic technique that used paper negatives to create images. The image is now part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. The couple's collaboration was short-lived, as Adamson died in 1848.