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Flora MacDonald [1839 - watercolour on ivory miniature]
Flora MacDonald [1839 - watercolour on ivory miniature]
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1839 (dated from costume)
Call Numbers
MIN 69
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
Drawings - 6.5 x 5.1 cm. inside frame (sight) - 7.6 x 6.2 cm., frame (loops, 1.4) - 1 watercolour on ivory miniature encased in gold and metal rectangular locket with squared corners and decorative border around edge that is close to glass front. The locket is hinged on the right-hand side and opens...
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Issue Copy
Digitised
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Scope and Contents
Contents
The female in this portrait wears a black [satin] dress adorned in red flowers and a brooch that dates from ca. 1837-1840. A tartan shawl covers the back of her head and shoulders.
Alternative Titles
Full title
Flora MacDonald [1839 - watercolour on ivory miniature]
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 874421...
Signature / Inscriptions
Flora / Macdonald engraved on back of locket.
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by D.S. Mitchell, 1907.
This item has been digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2002
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Administrative / Biographical history
Flora MacDonald, Jacobite, was born at Milton on South Uist but raised by the Clanranald family and then by Lady Margaret MacDonald of Skye. Flora is renowned for smuggling Prince Charles Edward Stewart from the Outer Hebrides after the defeat of the Jacobite Uprising at the Battle of Culloden by dressing him as "Betty Burke" an Irish maidservant....
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
MIN 69
Record Identifier
n88lb5Rn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n88lb5Rn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
202028
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