Print, Photographic
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| Nom de l'objet : | Print, Photographic |
| Médium : | wood, leather, velvet, tin (?), glass |
| Numéro d'accession : | BR2010.3.49 |
| Pays d'origine : | North America, Canada, Ontario |
| Date de début de production : | 1845 |
| Date de fin de production : | 1855 |
| Description : | A leather covered wooden (book style frame) photograph of Elizabeth Molony Harris. The book is held together by a 1 cm clasp on one side. (a) The front section: lined in red velvet, which has been embossed with a figure (4 cm high) of a vase with flowers. The edge around the velvet is brown leather. (b) The back section: This half contains the photograph of Elizabeth (Molony) Harris. It's in a 5 x 4 cm oval frame, behind glass. The oval frame is likely tin, painted in a gold colour. It is embossed and engraved with a paisley design. The outside of this section is also brown leather, heavily embossed with a paisley leaf pattern. A 3 x 2.5 cm white sticker (with a red border) is stuck to the back of section (b). Written in ink on the sticker is: 'Mrs. J. B. Harris (Elizabeth)'. |
| Fonctions : | Elizabeth Molony Harris (1806-1884), a native of Dublin, Ireland, married Captain James Beveridge Harris (1797-1884) in 1829 at St. Peter's Anglican Church in Dublin. She was one of eight children of an Anglican minister, Reverend Weldon John Molony, and Mary Preston. Elizabeth brought into the marriage an income of her own, based on rents from property in County Kildare, Ireland. Seven years after their marriage, Elizabeth's husband bought Benares in Upper Canada. She found herself a mistress of an estate in what was then an obscure and thinly settled portion of the British Empire, where servants were scarce and the neighbors distant. Elizabeth and James had eight children, six of which reached adulthood. Both died within the same year in 1884. |
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| Ville de l'établissement : | Mississauga |
| Province de l'établissement : | Ontario |
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