Collection search - View from the Garret Window of the House at Quebec

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View from the Garret Window of the House at Quebec

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

May 27 - July 4, 1838

Reference:

Box number: A068-02

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2884357

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Edward Ellice and family fonds

Katherine Jane Ellice art album

View from the Garret Window of the House at Quebec
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

May 27 - July 4, 1838

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil on wove paper
Support 20.400 x 28.000 cm
Secondary support 23.000 x 32.700 cm

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A view of several rooftops of Quebec in the foreground and the St. Lawrence and mountains in the background. Katherine Jane Ellice and her husband, Edward J. Ellice Jr., secretary to Lord Durham, accompanied the Governor General of British North America on his visit to Canada in 1838. Lord Durham's suite left England April 24 on the H.M.S. "Hastings," and arrived at Quebec on May 27. Mrs. Ellice remained at Quebec until July 4, 1838., Watercolour removed from album. This work was originally glued to a secondary support. The album page, folio 1, was cut to frame the image that was glued to its verso. Original mount and secondary support 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 pencil, on secondary support recto, right side vertically: View from [^the] garret window of our house at Quebec.; in pen and brown ink, on mount recto t.: 8.; in pen and brown ink, on mount recto b.: p 169.
Subject heading:

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Québec

landscape

paysage

QUE. : Québec City
Source:

Private

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00001
1990-215 X DAP
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access through an art archivist. No restrictions on use for reproduction or publication

Box [1990-215]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A068-02 Item no. assigned by LAC 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1990-215]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-013368 Item no. assigned by LAC 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1990-215-1
Copyright: Expired

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