An early 19th-century strict black and white ink line engraving, pure grayscale print with no color hints. A portrait of Mary Shelley from the waist up, seated within a pensive stance inside a dark stone castle chamber featuring gothic pointed arches in the background. She is a woman with striking, sorrowful features and thick, dark hair in elegant classical curls spilling from beneath her bonnet. She wears a simple, unadorned early 19th-century Regency chemise dress made of lightweight fabric, with a high gathered neckline and a stitched seam located very high, directly under the bust according to Empire fashion, with no corset or rigid bodice. She is seated at a dark wooden desk, her right hand holds a quill, poised above an inkwell and a sheet of paper. On the desk, there are other sheets of paper and several old, leather-bound books. At the bottom center, the title "Mary Shelley crée le monstre." is elegantly engraved in cursive script. Antique copperplate print with fine cross-hatching on a single piece of aged, off-white paper. Single unified image frame, no duplication, 4k.