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Sarah Hickman Amherst

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Date:

ca. 1740-1750

Reference:

Box number: MIN-065

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

2837551

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Hale and Hensley family fonds

Sarah Hickman Amherst
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Date(s):

ca. 1740-1750

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 painting : watercolour on ivory
Support 4.800 x 3.900 cm
Platemark 7.000 x 5.700 cm
Locket / case x cm

Language of material:

no language

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Sarah Hickman was the wife of the fifth Earl of Plymouth, and after his death married William Pitt Amherst in 1800. There is a portrait of her taken by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), now at the Amherst College Collection. Encasement: exterior frame is tortoise shell, inner frame is gold; back of shell has been painted black and braided suspension loop has been taped to the verso of miniature. Colour transparency: recto in frame., The miniature is in a circular frame under glass. The sitter may be Sarah Hickman (see The Amherst Family Portraits) PIC ND 1301.5 V55A45 1967., February 1979 - the miniature has what appears to be surface dirt on the nose of the sitter.
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Artist: Unknown artist 223, flourished 1740-1750

Depicted: Amherst, Sarah Hickman, approximately 1740-approximately 1750

Amherst, Sarah Hickman, ca. 1740-1750
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Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: Small Wonders: A National Archives of Canada Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures; Exhibition of Reproductions. Curators: Martha Marleau, National Archives, cat. no.: 4e. 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-112064 : recto in frame
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Portraits

Miniature

Jewelry
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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1979-014 PIC
00008
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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]

[Consultation 90 Open]

MIN-065 Item no. assigned by LAC 8

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1979-014]

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C-112064 Item no. assigned by LAC 8

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1979-14-8
Copyright: Expired

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