Collection Highlights
Wonderful Willie! : What he and Tommy did to Spain / sketches and rhymes by L.D. Bradley.
Date:
ca. 1899
Object Number:
LIB.PZ7.B66.W6
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Jenny Lind
Object Number:
1945.296
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
Provenance:
The Jenny Lind Collection of Leonidas Westervelt
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
