Madame Catalani The Celebrated Opera Singer Early 19th.Century Colour Printed Stipple Engraving After Adam Buck 1807 Robert Sargent Austin 5 by 29 cms framed

5 by 29 cms framed overall

Hand coloured etching by Robert Dighton

residing at the Leicester country estate Tabley House in Cheshire

She won the gold palette for a drawing by a young person under the age of 16 at the Society of Arts in 1760

Madame Catalani The Celebrated Opera Singer Early 19th.Century Colour Printed Stipple Engraving After Adam Buck 1807 Robert Sargent Austin 5 by 29 cms framedEarly 19th. Century English School colour printed stipple engraved portrait by Freeman after Adam Buck. Madame Catalani. 19 by 25 cms image. 29. 7 by 38. 5 cms overall framed. Angelica Catalani 1780 1849 celebrated Italian opera singer. Her voice, a dramatic soprano of nearly three octaves in range. Its unsurpassed power and flexibility made her one of the greatest bravura singers of all time. She was a close friend to both Beethoven and Rossini.