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Lot 595
LIND, Jenny (1820-1887). Collection of 30 Jenny Lind Items.
Estimate: $500 - $700
Sold for
$330
Sold Price includes BP
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LIND, Jenny (1820-1887). Collection of 30 Jenny Lind Items. Including 19 portrait prints: 18 lithographs, some hand-colored, and one photograph of a portrait; 2 prints of a bust of Lind; 2 Theatre, Royal, Hull, handbills (1847); German hand-colored lithograph etching; 4 sheet music books: Jenny Lind's Greeting to America, The Somnambulist's Song, The Rataplan, and Jenny Lind's Bridal Waltzes; cover of Jenny Lind's Somg with hand-colored lithograph of songbirds; and a page torn from a magazine with a reprodudtion of a print including Lind.
Sizes vary, but most are mounted to 17 x 13".
Jenny Lind was a celebrated Swedish operatic soprano known as the "Swedish Nightingale." After experiencing great success in European opera during the 1840s, she retired from the stage at the age of 29. She was later famously recruited by P.T. Barnum for a widely publicized American tour from 1850 to 1852, and she generously donated her substantial earnings to charity.
Condition
Overall good condition.
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