Strangely modern portrait of gothic young lady found in 1857 shipwreck sells for £62,000

With her curly corkscrew hair and gothic clothing, she looks like a modern cast member of the popular Netflix show Wednesday. But in fact, this haunting portrait of a young lady was found in the wreck of a ship that sank in 1857.

The picture is a 19th-century daguerreotype metal plate photograph, the first publicly available photographic process. And now the item has been sold for £61,591 ($73,200) in an auction of items recovered from the S.S. Central America.