Jenny Lind The Swedish Nightingale 1847

Jenny Lind The Swedish Nightingale 1847Jenny Lind. The Swedish Nightingale. Mezzotint engraving by Herman Sagert after Eduard Magnus published Berlin 1847. 19th. Century framed example with the black bordered visiting card of Linds husband Otto Goldschmidt inserted under the glass inscribed: Mr Otto Goldschmidts kind regards Mar 14 (18)88. 1 Moreton Gardens South Kensington. Mourning the loss of Lind the previous year. 40 by 51 cms plate. 48. 5 by 58. 7 cms overall in frame. Johanna Maria

60 by 80 cms

This particular drawing formed the basis for the stipple engraving by Thomas Woolnoth Published by Simpson and Marshall in 1819

resembling the work of Angelica Kauffman

Spanish Neo-Classical School Late 18th

very small area of staining to lower right to no real detriment

Executed on laid paper laid on to later backing sheet

Head Studies of King Lear with a further composition study to the reverse of Cordelia Awakening The King

painters and engravers of ornament

trimmed to plateline

Following a meeting with the art dealer ‘le Pére Martin’ (Pierre-Firmin Martin 1817-1891)

Felix Thomas Sharples from his second marriage (c

29 Thermidor An