Jenny Lind

Print Type: Engraving
Signed: In plate
Date: c1873
Publisher: Johnson Wilson
Dimensions: 11 x 8"
Provenance: Hill House Print Collection
Notes & Literature: Lind became famous after her performance in Der Freisch?tz in Sweden in 1838. Within a few years, she had suffered vocal damage, but the singing teacher Manuel Garc?a saved her voice. She was in great demand in opera roles throughout Sweden and northern Europe during the 1840s, and was closely associated with Felix Mendelssohn. After two acclaimed seasons in London, she announced her retirement from opera at the age of 29.In 1850, Lind went to America at the invitation of the showman P. T. Barnum. She gave 93 large-scale concerts for him and then continued to tour under her own management. She earned more than $350,000 from these concerts, donating the proceeds to charities, principally the endowment of free schools in Sweden. With her new husband, Otto Goldschmidt, she returned to Europe in 1852, where she had three children and gave occasional concerts over the next two decades, settling in England in 1855. From 1882, for some years, she was a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London.

Condition Report: Very Good

Subject References: 231F