• Title
  Item 03: Shoes belonging to Harriott Blaxland, ca. 1800
• Call number
  R 829
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  ca. 1800. Taken from date on original label (now photocopied).
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  60117
• Physical Description
  Objects - 3 women's square-toed shoes with leather soles, silk uppers (over a leather and material inner lining) with silk ribbon shoe laces attached. They are straight shoes (neither left nor right) and could be worn interchangeably - each 6 x 22 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Harriott Blaxland was the only daughter of John Louis de Marquet, of Calcutta, formally an officer in the Guard du Corps of Louis XVI. She married John Blaxland in 1797. Reference Source: A Genealogical and History of the Colonial Gentry / by Sir Bernard Burke. 1891
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Transfer from the Manuscripts Section (Blaxland & Walker Family papers, ca.1806-1933). Location number: ML MSS 462 item 3 & 5 Mitchell Library
  Digital order no:a126058
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "Shoes worn by Mrs John Blaxland, (nee de Marquet) in 1800..." -- on photocopied label which accompanies shoes.
• Name
  Blaxland, Harriott, 1777-1852
  
• Topic
  shoes
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Private Lives: Families of N.S.W. - State Library of New South Wales (1 January, 2001 - 3 February, 2002)

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