Collection search - Miss Katherine Lowther, Duchess of Bolton ( -1809)

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Miss Katherine Lowther, Duchess of Bolton ( -1809)

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Date:

May 1837

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Box number: MIN-033

Type of material:

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2886244

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William Molson Macpherson fonds

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Miss Katherine Lowther, Duchess of Bolton ( -1809)
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Date(s):

May 1837

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 painting / peinture : watercolour with white gouache and gum arabic on cardboard
Support 15.000 x 11.100 cm
Image 10.900 x 8.300 cm
Platemark 25.300 x 21.500 cm

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Head and shoulders portrait of Miss Lowther, showing her right profile. Probably Katherine Lowther, daughter of Robert Lowther, who might have been engaged to Gen. James Wolfe before his death in 1759. None of their correspondence survives, but Lowther was mentioned in Wolfe's will. She later became Duchess Bolton., This work has been identified as the "Miniature of Miss Lowther" in an inventory of Col. Macpherson's house. It was once framed. It is related in size and technique to a miniature of Wolfe (1990-133-1X) that was placed in exactly the same type of frame. The Wolfe miniature was executed by Miss H.S. Turner and dates to May 1837., It was catalogued June 19, 1931, which places some doubt on the attribution of this particular miniature of Miss Lowther to the Macpherson Collection.

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Artist: Turner, H.S. active ca. 1837, attributed to
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Portraits

Miniature
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Private

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1989-514 X DAP
00079
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Graphic (art)

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

Box [1989-514]

[Consultation 90 Open]

MIN-033 Item no. assigned by LAC 79

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1989-514-79, C-095788
Copyright: Expired

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