Collection search - Beautiful Miss Walmsley and other sketches

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Beautiful Miss Walmsley and other sketches

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Date:

after 1820

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2880817

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Andrew Motz Skene fonds

Beautiful Miss Walmsley and other sketches
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Date(s):

after 1820

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing / dessin : pen & ink and pencil on wove paper
Support 22.200 x 18.500 cm

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Drawing of a young woman wearing an empire-waisted dress and long gloves. Her hair is cut short and is curly. Also found on this page are a small drawing of a house, a profile of man's face, and two geometrical drawings.

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Artist: Skene, Andrew Motz, 1796-1849

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General note:

sketchbook: A.M. Skene Sketchbook folio 67 recto - inside back cover
The "Beautiful Miss Walmsley" is likely Rachel Jemima Walmesley, the daughter of James Walmesley and Ann Potts of Tynemouth, Northumberland, England. Rachel was born on May 20, 1795, and she married Andrew Motz Skene on August 31, 1822, Durham.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed., Inscription: in pencil, u.r.: Beautiful Miss Walmsley; in pen and ink, b.: (upside down) AMSkene (Partial Transcription)
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England

Portraits

Women - Clothing & dress
Source:

Private

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1988-043 PIC
000067
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access restricted. No restrictions on use for reproduction or publication

Item no. assigned by LAC [000067] 000067 R

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [000067] C-132874

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1988-43-67R Purchased in 1988 with a contribution from the Minister of Communications under the terms of the Cultural Property Export and Import Act.
Copyright: Expired

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