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Silhouettes of Capt. J.S. Schonswar (Jules LaMothe and J.B. Beaudry)

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Item (Accession level)

Date:

1842

Reference:

Accession number: 1983-025 X PIC, 00003, Box number: A292-02

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

2945695

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Auguste Edouart collection

Silhouettes of Capt. J.S. Schonswar (Jules LaMothe and J.B. Beaudry)
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Date(s):

1842

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 cut and/or pasted / découpage et/ou collage : Silhouette cut from black paper with collar cut-out and details in pencil, mounted on buff paper
Support 25.600 x 35.800 cm
Image 21.900 x 7.000 cm

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THE SCHONSWAR SILHOUETTE is full length in profile to the left with arms folded over the chest and a sput on one boot. The LaMothe silhouette is full length in profile to the left with arms folded over the chest. The Beaudry silhouette is full length with head in profile to the left and body frontal with crutch and peg leg. The mount is a folio from one of the artist's own albums of duplicate silhouettes., Lukis family, Guernsey, given to them by the artist following a shipwreck: Mrs. Emily Nevill Jackson, acquired from the son of Frederica Lukis, daughter of Thomas Lukis to whom Edouart gave the albums.

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Artist: Édouart, Auguste, 1789-1861

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General note:

by Augustin Edouart (unverified)

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: Inscribed on mount recto: in pen and black ink, l.l. "Capt: Schonswar Kings Dragoon / guards British Army. / Taken at Boston June 30 1842.", Inscription: Inscribed on mount recto: in pencil l.c. "Jules LaMothe / Montréal Canada / Taken at Saratoga 16th July / 1840"; on mount recto: l.r. "J.B. Beaudry of Montréal / Canada / 1840"; on mount verso: c.r. "2 copies / to [...] H. [...] / 1455 Drummond [?] St. / Montréal"., Inscription: Inscribed on mount recto: in pen and brown ink, u.l. vertically "139. [number of page]"; on mount verso: u.l. vertically "140. [page number]"., Inscription: There are probably inscriptions on the verso of the silhouettes since it was the artist's habit to identify and date each silhouette on the back.
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Portraits

SUBJ. - Portrait : Silhouette Of Capt. J.S. Schonswar, 1842
Source:

Private

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1983-025 X PIC

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1983-025 X PIC
00003
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [1983-025]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A292-02 Item no. assigned by LAC 3

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00003] C-095126--C-095127

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1983-25-3 X:A Source: Mrs. Emily Nevill Jackson, London, England.

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