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The idle spectator: Hans Christian Andersen's Dryaden (1868), Illustreret Tidende, and the Universal Exposition.(Critical essay)
From: Scandinavian Studies
Date: 20060622
Author:Stougaard-Nielsen, Jakob
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN was an avid traveller, a true nineteenth-century cosmopolitan, a connoisseur, and fetishist collector of everything new, popular, and spectacular. He took an active part in the new visual fashions of his time, especially as probably the most widely photographed superstar of the nineteenth century. He posed for at least one hundred seventy-five photographs, and his image was reproduced and circulated in daguerreotype, on numerous cartes de visite in cabinet photography, and stereoscopic images.
Andersen was always looking for a show at a local panorama ...
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