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The Seigneury at Beauharnois

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Date:

10 July - 12 November 1838.

Reference:

Box number: A068-02

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2836903

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Edward Ellice and family fonds

Katherine Jane Ellice art album

The Seigneury at Beauharnois
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Date(s):

10 July - 12 November 1838.

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil on wove paper
Support 21.200 x 31.400 cm
Secondary support 33.900 x 23.100 cm

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A view of the seigneury at Beauharnois and the St. Lawrence in the background. Mrs. Ellice stayed at her father-in-law's seigneury from July 10 until November 12, 1838 when she went to Montreal, then Saratoga, N.Y., before returning to England on November 26., Watercolour removed from album. This work was originally glued to a secondary support. The album page, folio 3, 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

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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, on secondary support recto b. [partially cut off]: The Seignory of Beauharnois. Beauharnois was a huge estate on the south side of the St. Lawrence./[I]t was bought by Alexander Ellice about 1789 & sold by Mr. Edward Ellice between 1850 & 1866.; in pencil, on secondary support recto b.: The Seignory Beauharnois-. [Written over with the former inscription].; in pen and brown ink, on mount recto t.: No 11; in pen and black ink, on mount recto t.: p. 193
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Que - Beauharnois

Québec

landscape

paysage

Que. - St. Lawrence River
Source:

Private

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00003
1990-215 X DAP
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
No restrictions on access to originals, or on use for reproduction or publication.

Box [1990-215]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A068-02 Item no. assigned by LAC 3

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1990-215]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-013370 Item no. assigned by LAC 3

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1990-215-3
Copyright: Expired

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