Jenny Lind
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T. Barnum brought her to the United States in 1850 for a series of concert engagements. Whipped into a frenzy of expectation by Barnum\u00e2\u0080\u0099s masterful publicity campaign, the nation readily succumbed to \u00e2\u0080\u009cLindomania.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Enthusiastic crowds mobbed the \u00e2\u0080\u009cSwedish Nightingale\u00e2\u0080\u009d at every stop throughout her tour, and concertgoers vied for tickets to her enormously popular performances."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "P. T. Barnum fanned the flames of \u00e2\u0080\u009cLindomania\u00e2\u0080\u009d by staging highly publicized auctions at which eager bidders fought for tickets to Jenny Lind\u00e2\u0080\u0099s performances. In Philadelphia, daguerreotypist Marcus A. Root bid the princely sum of $625 to secure a concert ticket. His outlay may also have earned him the opportunity for a portrait session with the acclaimed singer, for a daguerreotype of Lind by \u00e2\u0080\u009cM. A. & S. Root\u00e2\u0080\u009d was among those produced during Lind\u00e2\u0080\u0099s tour. In response to popular demand, daguerreotype copies\u00e2\u0080\u0094such as this version of the Root brothers\u00e2\u0080\u0099 original\u00e2\u0080\u0094enjoyed wide circulation."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Nacida en Estocolmo, Suecia"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Favorita de largo arraigo en las salas de \u00c3\u00b3pera europeas, la soprano Jenny Lind caus\u00c3\u00b3 sensaci\u00c3\u00b3n en Estados Unidos cuando el artista y empresario P. T. Barnum la trajo al pa\u00c3\u00ads en 1850 para una serie de conciertos. Enardecida por la magistral campa\u00c3\u00b1a publicitaria de Barnum, la naci\u00c3\u00b3n sucumbi\u00c3\u00b3 r\u00c3\u00a1pidamente a la \u00e2\u0080\u009clindoman\u00c3\u00ada\u00e2\u0080\u009d. Entusiastas multitudes asediaban al \u00e2\u0080\u009cruise\u00c3\u00b1or sueco\u00e2\u0080\u009d en cada parada de su gira y los mel\u00c3\u00b3manos se disputaban los boletos para sus codiciadas presentaciones."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Para avivar la llama de la \u00e2\u0080\u009clindoman\u00c3\u00ada\u00e2\u0080\u009d, P. T. Barnum prepar\u00c3\u00b3 subastas muy publicitadas donde los ansiosos postores se peleaban los boletos para las presentaciones de Jenny Lind. En Philadelphia, el daguerrotipista Marcus A. Root ofreci\u00c3\u00b3 la espl\u00c3\u00a9ndida suma de $625 por un boleto. Su derroche debe haberle ganado la oportunidad de una sesi\u00c3\u00b3n fotogr\u00c3\u00a1fica con la aclamada cantante, pues entre los daguerrotipos de Lind producidos durante su gira hab\u00c3\u00ada uno de \u00e2\u0080\u009cM. A. & S. Root\u00e2\u0080\u009d. Para satisfacer la demanda popular, copias daguerrot\u00c3\u00adpicas (como esta versi\u00c3\u00b3n del original de los hermanos Root) gozaron de amplia distribuci\u00c3\u00b3n."}], "creditLine": [{"label": "Credit Line", "content": "National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Irene Cooper Hustvedt and Ysabel Cooper Pine"}], "name": [{"label": "Artist", "content": "Unidentified Artist"}, {"label": "Copy after", "content": "Samuel Root, 1819 - 1889"}, {"label": "Copy after", "content": "Marcus Aurelius Root, 1808 - 1888"}, {"label": "Sitter", "content": "Jenny Lind, 6 Oct 1821 - 2 Nov 1887"}], "topic": [{"label": "Topic", "content": "Interior"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Equipment\\Shield"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Symbols & Motifs\\Flag"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Weapon\\Cannon"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Weapon\\Cannonball"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Cased object"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Jenny Lind: Female"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Jenny Lind: Performing Arts\\Performer\\Musician\\Singer\\Opera"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Jenny Lind: Society and Social Change\\Philanthropist"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Jenny Lind: Performing Arts\\Performer\\Musician\\Singer\\Soprano"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Portrait"}], "physicalDescription": [{"label": "Medium", "content": "Sixth-plate daguerreotype"}, {"label": "Dimensions", "content": "Image/Sight: 7.1 \u00c3\u0097 5.9 cm (2 13/16 \u00c3\u0097 2 5/16\")"}, {"label": "Dimensions", "content": "Mat (brass): 8.2 \u00c3\u0097 7 cm (3 1/4 \u00c3\u0097 2 3/4\")"}, {"label": "Dimensions", "content": "Case open: 9.4 \u00c3\u0097 16.8 \u00c3\u0097 2.1 cm (3 11/16 \u00c3\u0097 6 5/8 \u00c3\u0097 13/16\")"}, {"label": "Dimensions", "content": "Case closed: 9.4 \u00c3\u0097 8.5 \u00c3\u0097 2.4 cm (3 11/16 \u00c3\u0097 3 3/8 \u00c3\u0097 15/16\")"}], "dataSource": [{"label": "Data Source", "content": "National Portrait Gallery"}], "objectRights": [{"label": "Restrictions & Rights", "content": "CC0"}], "objectType": [{"label": "Type", "content": "Photograph"}]}}, "url": "edanmdm:npg_S_NPG.79.37", "hash": "8f96ed8dcd8d70af8577a1a25b0ef2ab976f6594", "docSignature": "abeed49f936275c5f3bbb479225853f5", "timestamp": 1658328480, "lastTimeUpdated": 1653682050, "title": "Jenny Lind"}