A spatial interface to twenty essays on the objects and themes of the exhibit as well as the objects and landmarks
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The important landmarks that stood at this important Broadway intersection over time and by site
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A look at the technical processes along with the men and women who made all these cultural commodities in New York
More informationLuther Boswell for Mathew Brady
Jenny Lind
1852
Sixth-plate daguerreotype
3 3/4 x 3 1/8 in. (9.5 x 7.9 cm)
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA. Purchase, partial gift of Kathryn K. Porter and Charles and Judy Hudson, 89.75
Mathew Brady incorporated portraits like this one of Jenny Lind and other celebrities into the gallery at his studio, which attracted customers and bolstered his reputation. Copies of these unique images (whole plate daguerreotype) were made by re-photographing the original, which in this case was photographed by Luther Boswell working for Brady in September 1850, which accounts for this laterally-reversed image from 1852 (sixth-plate daguerreotype).
— Claire McRee + Laura Kelly-Bowditch
