(MUSIC) JONES SISSIERETTA THE BLACK PATTI Sepia toned photog

Sale 2137 - Lot 299

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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

AN UNRECORDED IMAGE OF THE "BLACK PATTI" (MUSIC.) JONES, SISSIERETTA, "THE BLACK PATTI." Sepia toned photograph. 18 x 16 1/8 inches, with tissue guard, rolled in a scroll case brass snap closures, and mounted to a thick wooden dowel; overall size closed, 18 x 3 inches. Np, circa 1900-1905

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Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones (1869-1933) had been singing professionally for some years before she was dubbed the "Black Patti" by a New York Opera critic, who compared her considerable vocal talent to that of the Italian diva Adelina Patti. Black Patti performed widely at home and abroad, even giving a performance for President Benjamin Harrison. It is surprising then that only a handful of images of her seem to have survived. The present one can be identified by Sissieretta's face and the necklace which she also wears in an 1889 poster in the Library of Congress Performing Arts Collection.