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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/LIB/8/3/4
Former Reference	D3311/26/3
Title	Coloured portrait sketch of Eleanor Anne Porden, when she was a young girl
Date	[c1806]
Description	Now believed to have been by Mary Ann Flaxman, it having been previously identified by her sister Sarah Henrietta Kay. Mounted on card size 15 x 18 cm, image size 7.5 x 11 cm. Appears to be a later photographic copy of an original sketch which has been coloured over, possibly in pencil and watercolour.
Extent	1 item
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
Format	Photographic
Format	Artwork
Copies	A digital copy can also be viewed on the public computers at the record office.
Related Material	Publications relating to Eleanor Anne Porden: - Barbara Bryant, 'A portrait by Richard Westall of the poet Eleanor Porden', in The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 166, No. 1453, April 2024, pp. 358-367. Includes a reproduction of this item on p. 360. Available in Local Studies, LS/File 759.
Term	Watercolour painting