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Gelatin silver print
Lady Van Horne costumed as "A Colonial Dame" in the Explorers, Discoverers and Visitors set at the Historical Fancy Dress Ball, Montreal, Quebec, 1898
SignatureNon signé / Unsigned
Date
1898
Medium / Technique
Silver salts and watercolour on paper mounted on glass
Gelatin silver process
Dimensions22.8 × 18.5 cm
Origin
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, North America
Object NumberII-123034.2
CreditPurchase, funds graciously donated by Maclean’s magazine, the Maxwell Cummings Family Foundation and Empire-Universal Films Ltd.
Notes
A Colonial Dame
Explorers, Discoverers and Visitors set
Lady Van Horne, wife of railway magnate Sir William Van Horne, was one of the “lady patronesses” who took responsibility for organizing the ball. Her character’s name perhaps implied an affiliation with one of the two recently founded American associations whose titles included the term “Colonial Dames,” or it may have been her solution to the dearth of women identified in the historical record. Her dress shows a modicum of 18th-century influence.
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Lady Van Horne costumed as "A Colonial Dame" in the Explorers, Discoverers and Visitors set at the Historical Fancy Dress Ball, Montreal, Quebec, 1898
Wm. Notman & Son
1898
II-123034
Lady Van Horne costumed as "A Colonial Dame" in the Explorers, Discoverers and Visitors set at the Historical Fancy Dress Ball, Montreal, Quebec, 1898
Wm. Notman & Son
1898
II-123035
Miss Mary Van Horne costumed as "Madame Joliet" in the Explorers, Discoverers and Visitors set at the Historical Fancy Dress Ball, Montreal, Quebec, 1898
Wm. Notman & Son
1898
II-123036.2
Miss Mary Van Horne costumed as "Madame Joliet" in the Explorers, Discoverers and Visitors set at the Historical Fancy Dress Ball, Montreal, Quebec, 1898
Wm. Notman & Son
1898
II-123036
Dr. Frank Shepherd costumed as "Daumont de Saint-Lusson" in the Explorers, Discoverers and Visitors set at the Historical Fancy Dress Ball, Montreal, Quebec, 1898
Wm. Notman & Son
1898
II-123784
Miss Louisa Monk costumed as "Hélène Céloron de Saint-Ours" in the Explorers, Discoverers and Visitors set at the Historical Fancy Dress Ball, Montreal, Quebec, 1898
Wm. Notman & Son
1898
II-122979
Dr. Frank Shepherd costumed as "Daumont de Saint-Lusson" in the Explorers, Discoverers and Visitors set at the Historical Fancy Dress Ball, Montreal, Quebec, 1898
Wm. Notman & Son
1898
N-1979.130.13
Miss Louisa Monk costumed as "Hélène Céloron de Saint-Ours" in the Explorers, Discoverers and Visitors set at the Historical Fancy Dress Ball, Montreal, Quebec, 1898
Wm. Notman & Son
1898
II-122979.1
Miss A. Kay costumed as "Madame de la Mothe Cadillac" (probably Marie de Raclot, in the Explorers, Discoverers and Visitors group, 1670-1720, at the Historical Fancy Dress Ball, Montreal, Quebec, 1898
Wm. Notman & Son
1898
II-122962
Miss V. McCallum costumed as "A Shepherdess" in the Explorers, Discoverers and Visitors group, 1670-1720, at the Historical Fancy Dress Ball, Montreal, Quebec, 1898
Wm. Notman & Son
1898
II-122983
Frederick E. Meredith and Emily Tait costumed as “Sir John Coape Sherbrooke” and “Lady Sherbrooke” in the English Governors set at the Historical Fancy Dress Ball, Montreal, Quebec, 1898
Wm. Notman & Son
1898
II-123048
Miss Daisy Simpson costumed as “A Court Lady” in the Jacques Cartier set at the Historical Fancy Dress Ball, Montreal, Quebec, 1898
Wm. Notman & Son
1898
II-123054
This project is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Azrieli Foundation and Canadian Heritage.
