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"Sentry, Will there be a Sunrise?", H.M.S. "Hastings"
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Record information "Sentry, Will there be a Sunrise?", H.M.S. "Hastings"
Date:25 May 1838Reference:Box number: A069-02Type of material:ArtFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:2836907Date(s):25 May 1838Bilingual equivalent:Place of creation:No place, unknown, or undeterminedExtent:1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over conté crayon on blue-gray wove paper
Support 16.600 x 23.300 cm
Secondary support 34.600 x 22.900 cmScope and content:Katherine Jane Ellice accompanied her husband, Edward J. Ellice Jr., secretary to Lord Durham, on board the H.M.S. "Hastings" to Canada. Lord Durham's suite left England on April 24, 1838 and arrived at Quebec on May 27, 1838. While on board the "Hastings", Mrs. Ellice made many sketches. This sketch of her sister, Tina, was probably done on May 25, 1838. On that date, Mrs. Ellice wrote the following in her diary:, "Awoke early. Tina went and asked the Sentry if there was to be a Sun rise this morning." (Canada: Oberon, 1975. p. 30) This watercolour shows Tina, (Miss Eglantine Balfour), from the right side, looking out her cabin window on board the H.M.S. "Hastings.", Watercolour removed from album. This work was originally glued to a secondary support. The album page was cut to frame the image that was glued to its verso. Original secondary support and mount attached separately.Additional name(s):Additional information:General note:Removed from: album: Katherine Jane Ellice AlbumAvailability of other formats note:Colour transparency availableSignatures and inscriptions note:Inscribed., Inscription: in pencil, on support recto, l.l.: Tina; in pen and black ink over pencil, on secondary support recto b.: "Sentry, Will There be a Sunrise?"; l.r.: H.M.S. Hasting[s]; in pen and black ink, on mount recto t.: 3.; l.c.: Miss Eglantine Balfour; b.: p. 145Subject heading:Source:PrivateOther accession no.:00008
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No restrictions on access to originals, or on use for reproduction or publication.Box [1990-215][Consultation Open]A069-02 Item no. assigned by LAC 8[Consultation Open]Copy negative [1990-215][Consultation Open]C-013376 Item no. assigned by LAC 8[Consultation Open]Terms of use:Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1990-215-8
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