Jenny Lind
Artist
Mathew B. Brady
(American, 1823-1896)
Artist
Luther Boswell
(American)
CultureAmerican
Date1852
MediumSixth plate daguerreotype
DimensionsOverall, Support (Case, closed): 3 3/4 × 3 1/8 × 3/4 in. (9.5 × 7.9 × 1.9 cm)
Overall, Image: 3 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (8.3 × 7 cm)
Overall, Support (Case, open): 3 3/4 × 6 1/4 × 3/8 in. (9.5 × 15.9 × 1 cm)
Overall, Image: 3 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (8.3 × 7 cm)
Overall, Support (Case, open): 3 3/4 × 6 1/4 × 3/8 in. (9.5 × 15.9 × 1 cm)
InscribedScratched on boack of plate: "Jenny Lind by Luther Boswell Operator for M. B. Brady 18"
Credit LinePurchase, partial gift of Kathryn K. Porter and Charles and Judy Hudson
Object number89.75
On View
Not on viewLabel TextMathew Brady American (1823-1896) Jenny Lind, 1852 Daguerreotype, 3 1/4 x 2 3/4 in. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Purchase, partial gift of Kathryn K. Porter and Charles and Judy Hudson 89.75 Exhibition History"The Portrait in America," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, January 26 - April 8, 1990. "Photography Speaks II," The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, November 12, 1995 - March 31, 1996. "Mathew Brady and the Image of History", National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; September 26, 1997 - January 4, 1998. "20/20: Fashion in Photography," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, September 23, 1999 - January 2, 2000. "Art and the Empire: New York, 1825-1861," Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 11, 2000 - Jan. 7, 2001. (Exhib. cat. no. 166). "Visualizing Nineteenth-Century New York,” Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York, NY, September 18, 2-14 - January 11, 2015.Published ReferencesBrooks Johnson, _The Portrait in America_. Norfolk, VA: The Chrysler Museum, 1990, pp. 7, 18; ill. p. 18. Brooks Johnson, _Photography Speaks II_. NY and Norfolk, VA, Aperture/The Chrysler Museum of Art, 1995, pp. 8-9, ill. p. 9 Panzer, Mary. _Mathew Brady and the Image of History_. Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery, Washington and London, 1997, p. 179, ill. p.141. Lili LeGardeur. "Old Man Broadway," _Country Roads_. Vol. 17, no. 8. 08/2000:pp. 37-41; p. 38, ill. Catherine Hoover Voorsanger and John K. Howat, editors. _Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861_. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2000: p. 483, no. 166.
