Mathew Brady's Studio1850, Sept
[Jenny Lind, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, three-quarters to the left, facing front, seated]
Daguerreotype, whole plate, gold tonedLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs DivisionDAG no. 509X
Date based on a lithograph of Lind copyrighted in 1850 by D'avignon from a Brady daguerreotype.
Which photographer with Brady's Daguerreian Study is not certain and it might have been Poly Von Schneidau or Luther Boswell.
John Carl Frederick Polycarpus Von Schneidau (
Daguerreotype in America by Beaumont Newhall. New York: Dover, 1976, p. 59, and in
America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer. New York: American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1924, p. 210) or Luther Boswell (The Chrysler Museum acquired a daguerreotype of Jenny Lind along with a note from Mrs. Luther Boswell that described Lind coming to Brady's studio where operator Luther Boswell made the exposure.) [Wikipedia: December 2010]
Further clarification is requested.
LL/42150
