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Jenny Lind
Title
Jenny Lind
Object name
Needlework and printed picture
Date
ca. 1850
Medium
Silk, paper
Dimensions
Overall: 17 1/4 x 15 1/4 x 1/4 in. ( 43.8 x 38.7 x 0.6 cm )
Description
Silk and lithographed paper portrait of Jenny Lind, bust and arms printed with black, green, pink, and blue on flesh toned paper; dress sewn with yellow silk and stuffed; green silk sewn into a curtain around the figure; white silk ground; sewn onto green pasteboard with tan cotton edging.
Credit Line
Gift of Leonidas Westervelt
Object Number
1945.296
Provenance
The Jenny Lind Collection of Leonidas Westervelt
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
