Manuel Garcia (pencil on paper)

Manuel Garcia (1803-1906) Spanish singer, music educator and vocal pedagogist; drawn by his daughter; 'Reproduced from an original sketch by Pauline Viardot soon after the invention of the Laryngoscope'; Garcia is often credited with inventing the Laryngoscope in 1854; Pauline Viardot [née García] (1821–1910) was a leading nineteenth-century French mezzo-soprano, pedagogue, and composer of Spanish descent. From a Spanish opera family, her father Manuel Garcia, her sister, opera singer, Maria Malibran; she married Louis Viardot (1800-83) theatre director and author; adored by Ivan Turgenev;