Collection Highlights
Anna Pavlova (1881-1931)
Date:
1924
Object Number:
1952.45
Medium:
Patinated plaster on a wooden base
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Historical Artifacts
Jenny Lind Commemorative Medal
Object Number:
1945.203b
Date:
ca. 1848
Medium:
White metal and copper
Dimensions:
diameter: 1 3/8 in. ( 3.5 cm )
Description:
Bi-metallic struck uniface medal showing draped shoulder-length portrait of Lind facing left with legend: "JENNY LIND."
Gallery Label:
Jenny Lind (1820-1887), a renown Swedish opera singer known throughout Europe as "The Swedish Nightingale," was invited by P. T. Barnum to tour America in 1850. Her yearlong tour turned out to be a great success with American public, both common and distinguished alike.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Jenny Lind Collection of Leonidas Westervelt
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
