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Title:
Klondyke Kate
Object name(s):
drawing
Brief description:
Portrait of a fellow holiday maker [?], Limasol, Cyprus. Kate carries a bag inscribed 'Ships Bargains'. See file H1423 for biographical information about Sidney Mercer and correspondence relating to the Mercer gift and the founding of the Mercer Art Gallery.
Collection:
Mercer Art Gallery
Comments:
Note: [Kathleen Eloise Rockwell (1873–1957), best known as "Klondike Kate", and later known as Kate Rockwell Warner Matson Van Duren, gained her fame as a dancer and vaudeville star during the Klondike Gold Rush, where she met Alexander Pantages who later became a very successful vaudeville/motion picture mogul. She gained notoriety for her flirtatious dancing and ability to keep hard-working miners happy if not inebriated. She died in obscurity after some minor success training Hollywood starlets in the 1940s.]. See Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Rockwell [accessed 1.4.2015]
Content - description:
Portrait of a fellow holiday maker [?], Limasol, Cyprus. Kate carries a bag inscribed 'Ships Bargains'. See file H1423 for biographical information about Sidney Mercer and correspondence relating to the Mercer gift and the founding of the Mercer Art Gallery.
Credit line:
This collection is part of North Yorkshire Council Museums.
Dimension:
height x width
Dimension measured part:
image
Dimension value:
35.2 x 25.2 cm
Dimension:
height x width
Dimension measured part:
sheet
Dimension value:
35.2 x 25.2 cm
Inscription content:
KLONDYKE KATE
Inscription method:
ms.
Inscription position:
lower right centre
Inscription content:
Limasol Oct '67
Inscription method:
ms.
Inscription position:
lower right
Number of objects:
1
Object component name:
material
Object component name:
support
Object name:
drawing
Object number:
HARAG : 1432
Object production person:
Mercer, Sidney Agnew

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/808c27b5-a7ce-3ef2-a707-478feb05cdeb

Use licence for this record: CC BY

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/808c27b5-a7ce-3ef2-a707-478feb05cdeb, Mercer Art Gallery, CC BY

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