Collection Highlights
Plan of the Central Park, New York : Entry No. 4 in the competition
Date:
March 20, 1858
Object Number:
PR.003.234
Medium:
Ink and colored washes
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Jenny Lind Commemorative Medal
Object Number:
1945.186a
Date:
1848
Medium:
Bronze; wood, leather, silk
Dimensions:
case: 3 3/8 x 3 3/8 x 3/4 in. ( 8.6 x 8.6 x 1.9 cm )
diameter: 3 1/16 in. ( 7.8 cm )
Marks:
Inscription: obverse, below bust truncation, at left: "C.C.QVARNSTROM INV."
Inscription: obverse, below bust truncation, at right: "P.H. LINDGREN FEC."
Description:
Bronze struck medal with obverse showing draped shoulder-length portrait of Lind facing left with legend: "JENNY LIND." Reverse depicts group of four classically draped female figures around pedestal, one of them writing onto it: "3 DEC. 1847/D. 12 APRIL.1848."; in exergue: "MINNESGARD/AF TONKONSTENS VANNER/I STOCKHOLM"; all surrounded by border made up of lyres interspersed with laurel wreaths containing titles of Lind's operatic parts, tied with ribbons. Medal inset into square orange leather case with dark purple silk velvet interior.
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 Jenny Lind Collection of Leonidas Westervelt
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
