Jenny Lind (1820-1887) as Marie in Act II of Gaetano Donizetti's 'The Daughter of the Regiment'
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1847
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
194 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341483
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Jenny Lind (1820-1887) as Marie in Act II of Gaetano Donizetti's 'The Daughter of the Regiment', Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of Jenny Lind as Marie, standing, bare-headed, in the costume she wore in Act 2 of the Daughter of the Regiment, both hands holding a piece of music.
Provenance
part of collection built up by Thomas Balston (d.1967). He wrote about the collection in Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Age, 1958.
Marks and inscriptions
JENNY LIND (indented caps.)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter