Ellen Julia Hollond. Coloured drawing, 1841.

Hollond is described in the Oxford dictionary of national biography as "salon hostess, philanthropist, and author". Books by her include La vie de village en Angleterre, ou, Souvenirs d'un exilé (1862), A lady's journal of her travels in Egypt and Nubia (1864) and Les Quakers (1870)

Seated in profile to viewer's left, reading an illustrated book, at her house Allegria in east Sussex

[1841?]

1 drawing : pencil, with watercolour ; sheet 34.7 x 24.6 cm

Ellen Julia Hollond. Allegria, St Leonards on Sea Oct.r 29 1841

Bears indistinct initials, presumably of artist, right: possibly "JSB"

Wellcome Collection 20246i