Cabinet photograph studio portrait of the touring operatic vocalists, the Swedish Lady Quartet.
Philadelphia: P. Gutekunst, [1877]. Photographic print measures approx. 6 x 4.13 inches on a slightly larger mount. Backstamp for the Philadelphia photographer Gutekunst. Some light foxing and soiling; in very good condition, the image quite sharp. Item #21574
Signed in ink autograph at the foot of the mount on the verso by each of the four performers and inscribed in ink autograph on the verso, “Mr. E. L. Lichtenthaler with kind remembrance from the Swedish Lady Quartet. Blandon [Penna.] , Aug. 29th, 1877.” Presumably following the path blazed by their forebear Jenny Lind, newspaper accounts suggest these operatic performers toured from New York through Pennsylvania and into Illinois over the course of the summer and autumn of 1877.
Price: $150.00