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Mrs. Ellice and Miss Balfour Reflected in the Looking Glass of their Cabin on Board the H.M.S. "Hastings."

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Date:

May 28 ? 1838

Reference:

Box number: A069-02

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2836908

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Edward Ellice and family fonds

Katherine Jane Ellice art album

Mrs. Ellice and Miss Balfour Reflected in the Looking Glass of their Cabin on Board the H.M.S. "Hastings."
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Date(s):

May 28 ? 1838

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour over pencil on wove paper
Support 16.300 x 22.500 cm
Secondary support 33.600 x 22.700 cm

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A view of the interior of Katherine Jane Ellice's cabin on board the H.M.S. "Hastings" on the left half of the watercolour. On the right, a door with a mirror reflects the images of the artist in her nightdress, sketching from her cot, and her sister, Miss Eglantine Balfour ("Tina"), reading a book. This work is of particular interest because it depicts the interior of the ship and is also a self-portrait., This work probably dates from May 28, 1838. In her diary, Ellice writes,"Made sketches of our cabins...Tina read some of Mr. Bedford's book aloud to me in her cot at night of which I meanwhile made a Sketch." (Canada: Oberon, 1975. p.31)., Watercolour removed from album. This work was originally glued to a secondary support. The album page, folio 9, was cut to frame the image that was glued to its verso. Original mount attached separately.

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Artist: Ellice, Katherine Jane, 1814-1864

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General note:

Removed from: album: Katherine Jane Ellice Album

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: The Artist Herself: Self Portraits by Canadian Historical Women Artist. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario; 2015.05.02 - 2015.08.10

Further venue: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia; 2015.09.27 - 2016.01.03
Further venue: Art Gallery of Kelowna, Kelowna, British Columbia; 2016.01.22 - 2014.04.03
Further venue: Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario; 2016.05.25 - 2016.09.13

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed., Inscription: in pen and brown ink, on mount recto t.: No. 4.; in pen and black ink, on mount recto l.c.: On board the H.M.S. Hastings / M[^rs]. Ellice & Miss Balfour reflected in the Looking Glass; b.: p 146

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Portraits

Source:

Private

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00009
1990-215 X DAP
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
No restrictions on access to originals, or on use for reproduction or publication.

Box [1990-215]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A069-02 Item no. assigned by LAC 9

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1990-215]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-013377 Item no. assigned by LAC 9

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1990-215-9
Copyright: Expired

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