Collection search - Tina Reading in her Cot by Candlelight on the H.M.S. "Hastings"

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Tina Reading in her Cot by Candlelight on the H.M.S. "Hastings"

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Date:

May, 1838

Reference:

Box number: A069-02

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2884472

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Edward Ellice and family fonds

Katherine Jane Ellice art album

Tina Reading in her Cot by Candlelight on the H.M.S. "Hastings"
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

May, 1838

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing / dessin : pencil on wove paper
Support 13.000 x 16.500
Secondary support 33.400 x 22.100

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An image of Tina, (Miss Eglantine Balfour), Katherine Jane Ellice's sister, shown from the right side in profile, reading in her cot by candlelight on board the H.M.S. "Hastings." Tina was part of Lord Durham's suite, which accompanied the Governor General of British North America to Canada in 1838. Mrs. Ellice wrote in her diary about sketching her sister on several occasions in May 1838 while on the "Hastings.", Watercolour removed from album. This work was originally glued to a secondary support. The album page, folio 11, was cut to frame the image that was glued to its verso. Original secondary support and mount attached separately.
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Artist: Ellice, Katherine Jane, 1814-1864

Depicted: Balfour, Eglantine, 1838?

Balfour, Eglantine, ca. 1838
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General note:

Removed from: album: Katherine Jane Ellice Album

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed., Inscription: in pen and black ink over pencil on secondary support recto b.: Tina reading in her cot - candlelight.; in pen and brown ink, on mount recto t.: No 6.; in pen and black ink, on mount recto l.l.: p 148; l.r.: H.M.S. Hastings.
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activity

activité

Hastings (Ship)

SUBJ - SHIPS - INTERIOR SCENES

Sports & Amusements - READING

Hastings (Navire)
Source:

Private

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00011
1990-215 X DAP
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Nil

Box [1990-215]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A069-02 Item no. assigned by LAC 11

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1990-215]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-013379 Item no. assigned by LAC 11

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1990-215-11
Copyright: Expired

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