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The Insurgents, At Beauharnois, Lower Canada

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Date:

November 1838

Reference:

Box number: A069-02

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2836920

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Edward Ellice and family fonds

Katherine Jane Ellice art album

The Insurgents, At Beauharnois, Lower Canada
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Date(s):

November 1838

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour over pencil on blue-gray wove paper.
Support 23.800 x 16.600 cm

Language of material:

no language

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A depiction of some of the rebels at Beauharnois. Katherine Jane Ellice was at her father-in-law's seigneury at Beauharnois when it was attacked on November 4, 1838. She was kept prisoner there with her sister Tina (Miss Eglantine Balfour) and other members of the household until November 10, when they were freed by troops., Watercolour originally glued into album., Digitization project: Treasured Memories.

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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:

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Exhibition title: Image of Canada. Curators: Michael Bell, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1972.01.19 - 1972.03.15, cat. no.: no. 41. Further venue: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec; 1972.08.10 - 1972.09.30., Further venue: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario; 1972.11.16 - 1973.01.13., Further venue: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan; 1973.02.04 - 1973.02.24., Further venue: Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba; 1973.03.19 - 1973.04.22., Further venue: Glenbow Alberta Institute, Calgary, Alberta; 1973.10.01 - 1973.10.31., Further venue: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Colombia; 1973.12.01 - 1973.12.31., Further venue: Victoria Art Gallery, Victoria, British Colombia; 1974.01.15 - 1974.02.15., Further venue: Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland; 1974.04.01 - 1974.04.30., Further venue: Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick; 1974.05.15 - 1974.06.15., Further venue: Confederation Centre, Charlottetown, P.E.I.; 1974.07.01 - 1974.08.30., Further venue: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia; 1974.09.15 - 1974.10.01., Further venue: International Exhibition Foundation, Washington D.C.; 1975., Exhibition title: Papineau - His Life and Time. Curators: Claude Baribeau, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1986.11.26 - 1987.02.28., Exhibition title: Rebellion of the Canadas, 1837-1838. Curators: Robert J. Burns, Marianne McLean, and Susan Porteous, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1987.08.12 - 1987.10.04., Exhibition Title: Treasured Memories 1: A National Archives of Canada Exhibition [125th Anniversary of the National Archives]. Curator: Martin Tétreault, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1997.05.14-1998.01.31., Exhibition title: Rébellions 1837 to 1838 Patriotes Vs Loyaux. Curators: Pointe-à-Callière, Montreal, Quebec; 2007.11.06 - 2008.04.27., Exhibition title: le 175 anniversaire des Rébellions bas-canadiennes, Maison nationale des Patriotes, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec; 2012.04.28 - 2012.09.30.

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Québec

event

SUBJ. - Military Activity : The Taking of Prisoners, 1838

Historical Events - Rebels : Beauharnois - 1838

Military Activity
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Private

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00024
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]

A069-02 Item no. assigned by LAC 24

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1990-215]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-013392 Item no. assigned by LAC 24

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada / Acc. No. 1990-215-24R
Copyright: Expired

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