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[Madame Marie Carandini]

Title
[Madame Marie Carandini]
Description
Whole-length, standing, resting hands on the back of a chair. Mary Carandini (nee Burgess) was the wife of an exiled Italian Count, Count Gerome Carandini, tenth Marquise of Saranzo, who came to Hobart, Tasmania, in the 1840s. She became a noted opera singer. Madame Carandini and her daughters Fanny, Rosina and Lizzie formed a famed singing group, travelling widely in Australia and overseas.
Creator
Dowling, W. P., photographer.
Subject
Carandini, Marie, Madame, 1826-1894.
Image number
H10446
Format
photograph : albumen silver carte-de-visite ; on carte-de-visite 10.7 x 6.5 cm.
Managed by
Item held by State Library of Victoria
Collection or series
IspartOf Theatre portraits collection.
Date or place
[ca. 1863 - ca. 1865]
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