A Pre-Raphaelite oil painting of nivdoyle woman with her long copper waves and her black rectangular glasses, a woman of twenty-seven, seated in a carved oak window seat of an old stone library, reading a heavy leather-bound book of fairy tales open on her lap, one hand resting on the page and the other lifted to her lips in thought, her expression absorbed and dreamy. She wears a flowing deep emerald velvet gown with long medieval sleeves and a gold embroidered girdle, the fabric falling in rich heavy folds across the cushion. Around her climb shelves of ancient books, a brass astrolabe and a vase of wild foxgloves and white lilies, and through the leaded window behind her a misty green hillside with a ruined tower fades into soft blue distance. Soft diffuse daylight from the window on the left lights her face and hands, glowing on the velvet and catching the copper of her hair. Luminous jewel-toned colours, meticulous botanical detail, fine visible brushwork and glazed oil layers in the manner of a nineteenth-century Pre-Raphaelite canvas, gilded warm varnish tone.