IDNO

D.78582.LIN

Description

Pen and ink drawing of a pair of Evenki? long leather (possibly suede?) boots with darker coloured stitched leather at the heel possibly for additional strength.
The pair of boots do not appear to be in the collections donated by Ethel Lindgren to MAA. [JD 09/09/2025]

Place

E Asia; China; ?Inner Mongolia [North west Manchuria]

Cultural Affliation

?Evenki [historically Reindeer Tungus]

Named Person

Photographer

King, Edith [Artist]

Collector / Expedition

Lindgren, Ethel John

Date

Collection Name

Lindgren Collection

Source

Format

Drawing

Primary Documentation

Other Information

D.78577.LIN to D.78582.LIN and D.78586.LIN to D.78587 were found inside folder now numbered C366/.

Named Person: Edith Mary King was born at 57 Trumpington St. Cambridge on 21 June 1891. Her father, Albert Edward King, was working as a trainee solicitor and went on to have a successful career as a solicitor, was active on the City Council and became an Alderman. Edith King learnt painting from Miss Mary Charlotte Greene, who was a semi-professional artist, and possibly one of the founders of the Cambridge Drawing Society.
Edith King moved to Christchurch, New Zealand in 1972 to be near her niece and her family, continued to paint, and died there on 25 June 1976. "Both my sisters were living in Cambridge in the 1950's when my aunt was living in Harston, and through her they knew Ethel John Lindgren. I met her only a few times and visited her only once in her extraordinary Swiss cottage-style house in Harston. The only thing I remember seeing there was a watercolour by Miss Green I think of the house on the corner of Lensfield Road opposite Hobson Conduit." [Knowledge shared by Richard Andrewes, nephew of Edith King, 12/09/2025]

Named Person: "Mary Charlotte Greene (1860 - 1951). "Painter and teacher noted for traditional landscapes, as in her The Vicarage at Granchester, made famous by the Rupert Brooke poem and offered by Bonhams, in The East Anglian View, at Lynford Hall, Mundford, 2000. Greene was born in Takeley, Essex, and studied at the St John’s Wood School of Art and Royal Academy Schools. She was the principal of the Garden Studio at Cambridge and lived for a time in the county at Harston. Exhibited at RA, Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and elsewhere. Signed work with a monogram of her three initials." [Source: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/greene-mary-charlotte-18601951, JD 15/09/2025]
Ethel John Lindgren was a friend of Mary Greene, and it was this friendship that was one of the reasons Ethel moved to Harston. See 'Harston History - John Lindgren of Sunbourn - Recollections 2016-2018'. [source: https://www.harstonhistory.org.uk/content/memories/john-lindgren-of-sunbourn-recollections-in-2016, JD 15/09/2025]