Jenny Lind, PT Barnum's 'Swedish Nightingale', c1850 (1955). Artist: Unknown

Jenny Lind, PT Barnum's 'Swedish Nightingale', c1850 (1955). Artist: Unknown

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Jenny Lind, PT Barnum's 'Swedish Nightingale', c1850 (1955). Regarded as one of the finest soprano opera singers of the 19th century, Lind (1820-1887) was invited to the United States by Barnum in 1850. Between 1850 and 1852 she gave 93 concerts in the US, earning Barnum $500,000 and herself $250,000, most of which she donated to charity. A print from Mathew Brady Historian with a Camera by James D Horan, Bonanza Books, New York, 1955.


Image Details


People Information

Creator
  1. Unknown:
After
  1. Mathew Brady: American: Photographer
Subject
  1. Jenny Lind: Swedish, British: Singer
People Related
  1. James D Horan: : Author
  2. Phineas Taylor Barnum: American: entertainer, showman, circus promoter

Medium
  1. Photograph

Picture Type
  1. Portrait

Geographic Hierarchy

World Europe Sweden

  1. 62 00 00 N , 015 00 00 E

Category Hierarchy

Lifestyle & Leisure Fashion & Dress

Lifestyle & Leisure Entertainment & Media

People Famous People

Society & Culture Performing Arts

Society & Culture Music

Artistic Representations Portraits


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3694x4727
File Size : 51,157kb


Aliases

  1. 0580023297
  1. 2-365-449
  1. 2365449

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