This picture of Holy Mother was taken in 1898 when she was forty-five

This picture of Holy Mother was taken in 1898 when she was forty-five, at 10/2 Bosepara Lane, Baghbazar, Calcutta, by an English photographer.

The story behind the picture is interesting:

"When Mrs. Ole Bull approached Holy Mother for her photograph, she declined because she was too shy to go to a studio and unveil her face in front of an unknown photographer. But when Mrs. Ole Bull fervently requested, Holy Mother asked her to bring a woman photographer. As no woman photographer was available, she then asked her to bring a European photographer. When the photographer arrived, Holy Mother, controlling her bashfulness, sat for a photo session. Sister Nivedita and Golap-ma arranged her cloth and hair according to their taste."

On March 9, 1899, Sister Nivedita wrote to Mrs. Eric Hammond: "You know that photograph meant the first time she [Holy Mother] had ever looked straight at a grownup man outside her own family, or been seen by one. Yet what self-consciousness was there? Not a grain! Neither Swami [Vivekananda] nor Sri Ramakrishna himself ever saw her unveiled - after her marriage, that is, when she was a little girl of five!" (Letters of Sister Nivedita, Vol. 1, p. 76).

This photo is called the meditation pose.