The life and genius of Jenny Lind
A New York biography of the Swedish soprano Jenny Lind, published in 1850 by W.F. Burgess of Ann Street, written for an American public following her concert tours. Its wood-engraved plates show the singer in stage costume and as a seated portrait, with the images depicting her performance roles and poised gestures in long, full-skirted dresses. A designer could draw on the mid-nineteenth-century costume silhouettes, the dramatic staged settings with towers and curtains, and the cross-hatched shading typical of period newspaper engravings.
