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[Lola Montez, full-length portrait, standing, facing right] – Antique Photo Print

[Lola Montez, full-length portrait, standing, facing right] — historic photograph
[Lola Montez, full-length portrait, standing, facing right]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Step back in time with [Lola Montez, full-length portrait, standing, facing right], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Lola Montez, full-length portrait, standing, facing right]

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Shown full length, standing and turned toward the right, the dancer poses in a way that suited a performer whose fame rested on movement and stage presence. Lola Montez was born Eliza Gilbert in Ireland and adopted a Spanish identity for the stage. She rose to fame across Europe in the 1840s, where her romantic entanglements with powerful patrons drew as much attention as her dancing. This picture is a 1940 print made from a photograph taken between 1840 and 1860, so it preserves her image from the years when her celebrity was at its height. She died in New York in 1861.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[1940, from a photograph taken between 1840 and 1860]
SubjectsMontez, Lola,--1818-1861.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,210 × 5,140 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-199247

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