Jenny Lind (1820-1887) as Alice in Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera 'Robert le Diable'
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1847
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
261 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341486
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Jenny Lind (1820-1887) as Alice in Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera 'Robert le Diable', Staffordshire Pottery. Ful-length Staffordshire figure of Jenny Lind as Alice, standing, bare-headed. Right hand on the side of the Celtic Cross, left on top of the pedestal.
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 (gilt script)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter