Jenny Lind (1820-1887) as Alice in Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera 'Robert le Diable'
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1847
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
284 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341485
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Jenny Lind (1820-1887) as Alice in Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera 'Robert le Diable', Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of Jenny Lind as Alice in Robert le Diable. Kneeling, bare-headed, her right arm round the Celtic Cross, left hand on the front of the pedestal. A decorative base with a ribbon on it , perhaps intended for a script title.
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
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Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter