An original signed carte de visite photograph of the bel canto soprano, who figured among the best operatic singers of the nineteenth century and enjoyed a huge international celebrity throughout her entire career. Looking charming as always, she has signed delicately towards the bottom.

Writing the same year of this photograph's signature, Verdi described Adelina Patti as a stupendous artist who might be the finest singer that ever lived. It was in the 1870s that Patti's high, flexible voice began to fill out in its lower range, enabling her to take on weightier challenges like Gilda in Rigoletto, Leonora in Il trovatore, Violetta in La traviata, and the title role of Aida.