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Sarah Mountain

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Date:

1778

Reference:

Box number: OP-0884

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2885746

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Jacob Mountain collection

Sarah Mountain
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Date(s):

1778

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 painting / peinture : oil on copper
Support 23.100 x 18.800 cm
Platemark x cm

Language of material:

no language

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A companion piece to the portrait of her brother, Jacob Mountain Acc. no. 1982-92-1.

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Artist: Downman, John, 1750-1824

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Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: A Place in History - Twenty Years of Acquiring Paintings, Drawings and Prints. Curator: Jim Burant, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1990.10.30-1991.03.31

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: Inscribed recto: in brushpoint and oil c.l. "J. DOWNMAN / PINXT. / 1778"; on label, b. of frame "SARAH MOUNTAIN / JOHN DOWNMAN, 1778"; printed on label, Verso: t. of frame, "Yale Center for / British Art and / British Studies/ IR #27"; Verso: in pen and ink, to. of frame: "Mackay 90"; Typewritten on label, Verso: u.r. of frame, "NO. 2868 / JOHN DOWNMAN Sarah, sister of Jacob Mountain"; in pen and ink on label, c. of frame backing, "SARAH b. / 1748 / ? at / Thwaite All Saint's, Norfolk / d. of Jacob Mountain & Eng / Anne Postle / died at Québec 1808 / sister of the 1st / Bishop of Québec"; on pink label, Verso: l.r. of frame, "OWNER / MELLON, MR. PAUL / ARTIST DOWNMAN, JOHN / TITLE / PORTRAIT OF SARAH, SISTER OF JACOB / MOUNTAIN, FIRST BISHOP / OF QUEBEC / NATIONAL GALLERY PM 4171".
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Portraits

SUBJ. - Portrait : Painting Depicting Sarah Mountain (1748-1808), Sister Of Bishop J. Mountain, 1878
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Private

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1982-092 PIC
00002
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
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Box [1982-092]

[Consultation 90 Open]

OP-0884 Item no. assigned by LAC 2

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1982-092]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-100661 Item no. assigned by LAC 2

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1982-92-2
Copyright: Expired

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