[Jenny Lind, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, three-quarters to the left, facing front, seated] – Antique Photo Print
![[Jenny Lind, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, three-quarters to the left, facing front, seated], [1850 Sept. 14] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7c/7cc0c5b9ee30-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Jenny Lind, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, three-quarters to the left, facing front, seated]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Jenny Lind, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, three-quarters to the left, facing front, seated]
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Captured in New York during the early weeks of the American tour that made Jenny Lind a sensation, this whole-plate daguerreotype shows the Swedish soprano seated and turned three-quarters to the left. Her tour, arranged by promoter P.T. Barnum, drew huge crowds and set off a craze known as "Lindomania." The identification rests on an 1850 lithograph made from a Mathew Brady daguerreotype, and the September 14 date comes from a later researcher, so it is best read as a well-supported attribution. The gold toning, applied to deepen the silver image, gives the plate its warm tones.
| Created / published | [1850 Sept. 14] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : whole plate daguerreotype, gold toned. |
| Genre | 1976 |
| Notes | Identification based on a lithograph of Lind copyrighted in 1850 by D'avignon from a Brady daguerreotype. Date provided by researcher George Jones |
| Subjects | Lind, Jenny,--1820-1887. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,096 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 226_Jenny_Lind_threequarter_1850 |
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