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Elizabeth Penn Sprague at age seventeen, 1882.
Elizabeth Penn Sprague's Grand Tour
In 1882, at the age of seventeen, Elizabeth Penn Sprague (1864–1953) embarked on a "Grand Tour" of Europe with her parents. Her visa for the trip provided a detailed physical description: "stature six feet and one half inch; forehead high; eyes blue; nose straight; mouth ordinary; chin pointed; hair light; complexion light; face oval." For eleven months, she traveled with her family through nearly every country of Western Europe attending the opera whenever possible, including Halévy's La Juive at the Théâtre de l'Opéra in Paris and the premiere of Wagner's last music drama, Parsifal, in Bayreuth. |