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Elizabeth Carey Amherst

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Date:

ca. 1767

Reference:

Box number: MIN-056

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2837549

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Hale and Hensley family fonds

Elizabeth Carey Amherst
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Date(s):

ca. 1767

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 painting : watercolour on ivory
Support 7.000 x 5.300 cm
Locket / case 8.800 x 6.000 cm

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no language

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Elizabeth was the daughter of General George Carey, and became the second wife of Jeffery Amherst in 1767. There is another portrait of her by Francis Cotes (1726-1770) at Amherst College [Cotes is listed as an exhibitor at the Royal Academy in 1769 and 1770], and another miniature of her in National Archives holdings, see miniature no. 64. Encasement gold-tone metal locket with crystal recto and verso; brown velvet fabric under crystal verso. Colour transparency: recto locket., The miniature is in a locket under glass. The verso of the locket contains a piece of brown silk(?) under glass. The sitter is thought to be Elizabeth Carey, second wife of Lord Amherst., February 1979 - the miniature appears to be in good condition.
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Artist: Unknown artist 225, flourished 1767

Amherst, Elizabeth Carey, baroness, 1740-1830
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Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: Small Wonders: A National Archives of Canada Exhbition of Portrait Miniatures; Exhibition of Reproductions. Curators: Martha Marleau, National Archives of Canada, cat. no.: 4b. Further venue: National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario: 1995.02.13-1995.06.26., Exhibition title: I Know You by Heart: Portrait Miniatures / Je vous connais par coeur : portraits en miniature. Curator: Johanna Mizgala. Library and Archives Canada Exhibition. New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick; 2012.09.20 - 2012.12.31., Further venue: Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; 2013.03.22 -2013.06.02.

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Dated.

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C-112025 : recto in locket
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Portraits

Miniature
Source:

Private

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1979-014 PIC
00011
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Graphic (art)

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

Box [1979-014]

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MIN-056 Item no. assigned by LAC 11

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Copy negative [1979-014]

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C-112025 Item no. assigned by LAC 11

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1979-14-11
Copyright: Expired

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