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Title

The Drawing Room at the Seigneury House, Beauharnois, Lower Canada / Le salon du Manoir de Beauharnois, Bas-Canada. 

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Arrangement structure

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Item (linked) part of

Katherine Jane Ellice art album [graphic material] (R2823-2-5-E)

Bilingual equivalent

Le salon du manoir de Beauharnois, Bas-Canada

Date(s)

July 10 - November 12, 1838

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil / aquarelle sur crayon on wove paper
Support: 22.800 x 17.000 cm

Scope and content

An interior view of the drawing room at Beauharnois, Katherine Jane Ellice's father-in-law's seigneury. Two men are partially visible, and a woman, probably Tina, Mrs. Ellice's sister, is shown reading a book. Mrs. Ellice stayed at Beauharnois from July 10 to November 12, 1838.
Pencil sketch of a clock [?] on the verso.
Watercolour removed from album. This work was originally glued to a secondary support. The album page was cut to frame the image that was glued to its verso.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)
99: Closed pending processing
No restrictions on access to originals,
or on use for reproduction or publication.
Graphic (art)
Copy negative C-013384
Restrictions not set
Graphic (art)
99: Closed pending processing
Box
A069-01 Item no. assigned by LAC 16
90: Open
Other accession no.
00016
1990-215 X DAP

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1990-215-16
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Artist: Ellice, Katherine Jane, 1814-1864.

Additional information

Removed from: album: Katherine Jane Ellice Album

Availability of other formats note
Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note
Exhibition title: Image of Canada / Visage du Canada. Curators: Michael Bell, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1972.01.19 - 1972.03.15, cat. no.: no. 40. Further venue: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec; 1972.08.10 - 1972.09.30.
Further venue: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario; 1972.11.16 - 1973.01.13.
Further venue: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan; 1973.02.04 - 1973.02.24.
Further venue: Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba; 1973.03.19 - 1973.04.22.
Further venue: Glenbow Alberta Institute, Calgary, Alberta; 1973.10.01 - 1973.10.31.
Further venue: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Colombia; 1973.12.01 - 1973.12.31.
Further venue: Victoria Art Gallery, Victoria, British Colombia; 1974.01.15 - 1974.02.15.
Further venue: Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland; 1974.04.01 - 1974.04.30.
Further venue: Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick; 1974.05.15 - 1974.06.15.
Further venue: Confederation Centre, Charlottetown, P.E.I.; 1974.07.01 - 1974.08.30.
Further venue: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia; 1974.09.15 - 1974.10.01.
Further venue: International Exhibition Foundation, Washington D.C.; 1975.
Exhibition Title: Image d'un changement de siècle(1760-1840), portrait des arts, des lettres et de l'éloquence au Québec. Musée du Château Ramezay Museum, Vieux-Montréal, Québec; 2000.01.17-2000.06.28.

Signatures and inscriptions
Inscribed. Signed. Dated.
Inscription: verso, in pencil: Drawingroom Seigneurie/Beauharnois; u.r. slanted vertically: Beauharnois.

Subject heading

1. interior.
2. intérieur.
3. SUBJ - ARCHITECTURE: INTERIOR.
4. SUBJ - DOMESTIC LIFE: INTERIOR SCENES.
5. SUBJ - SPORTS & AMUSEMENTS, READING.
6. SUBJ - FURNITURE.
7. SUBJ - MUSIC - ACTIVITIES.
8. SUBJ - MUSIC - MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS - PIANO.
9. Québec.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

ICON56093

MIKAN no.

2836911