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Lady Emily and Lady Mary Lambton

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Date:

24 April - 12 November 1838

Reference:

Box number: A069-01

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2836912

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Edward Ellice and family fonds

Katherine Jane Ellice art album

Lady Emily and Lady Mary Lambton
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

24 April - 12 November 1838

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour over pencil on gray laid paper
Support 18.900 x 13.500 cm
Secondary support 33.200 x 21.700 cm

Language of material:

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Full-length portrait of Lady Emily and Lady Mary Lambton, both shown in profile from the left side, both seated and painting at easels. Lady Mary Louisa Lambton (d. 1898) was the eldest daughter of Lord and Lady Durham. Lady Emily Augusta Lambton (d. 1886) was their second daughter. They accompanied their father to Canada in 1838., Watercolour removed from album. Attached to original mount. The album page was cut to frame the image that was glued to its verso. Original album page attached separately., New colour transparency produced 03.01.01; colour had shifted in original transparency.
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Artist: Ellice, Katherine Jane, 1814-1864

Depicted: Elgin, Mary Louisa, Lady, 1819-1898

Depicted: Lambton, Emily, Lady

Lambton, Emily, Lady

Elgin, Mary Louisa Lambton, Lady, d. 1898
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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: Mirror of Canada Past. Curators: Staff of the National Archives, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1972.06.01 - 1972.09.25, cat. no.: no. 7-3., Exhibition Title: Culture and Democracy: Lord and Lady Elgin in Canada, 1847-1854. Curators: National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.

Further Venue: Rideau Hall, Ottawa, Ontario; 2003.04.02-2003.08.18.

Further Venue: La Citadelle, Quebec City, Quebec; 2003.09.05-2004.02.16.

Further Venue: Château Ramezay Museum, Vieux-Montreal, Quebec; 2004.04.16-2004.05.02., Exhibition title: Ladylikeness: Historical Portraits of Women by Women. Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta; 2019.03.08 - 2020.01.05.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed., Inscription: in pen and black ink, on folio below image: Lady Emily & Lady Mary Lambton [arrow pointing from 'Lady Mary Lambton' to 'afterward Countess of Elgin' on next line] / (d's of Lord Durham, afterward Countess of Elgin); b.: p 202; in pen and brown ink, on folio above image, t.: No 16
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Portraits

Sports & Amusements - PAINTING
Source:

Private

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00017
1990-215 X DAP
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access through an art archivist. No restrictions on use for reproduction or publication

Box [1990-215]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A069-01 Item no. assigned by LAC 17

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1990-215]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-013385 Item no. assigned by LAC 17

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada / Acc. No. 1990-215-17 / c013385k
Copyright: Expired

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