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View from Bessels Fiord, Greenland, Looking North-West

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Date:

23-24 August 1875

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Box number: A595/X2

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

2834008

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Thomas Mitchell fonds

View from Bessels Fiord, Greenland, Looking North-West
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Date(s):

23-24 August 1875

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil with opaque white on wove paper
Support 11.200 x 127.500 cm

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no language

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This image is composed of 4 sheets of unequal size glued together. The two left sheets (C-27833) are on folio 12 verso. The two right sheets (C-27824) are on folio 13 recto, both being in an album with 23 folios.

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Artist: Mitchell, Thomas, 1833?-1924

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General note:

Removed from: Album: Sketches made during the Voyage of the Discovery and Alert to the Polar Sea - 1875-6. Under the Command Of Capt. Sir George S. Nares K.C.B. F.R.S. Sailed from Portsmouth 29 May 1875. Arrived Valentia (Ireland) 27 Oct. 1876.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: The Light that Fills the World. Curator: René Picard, Canadian Embassy Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.; 1989.09.19-1990.01.15, Exhibition Title: Cosmos: From Romanticism to the Avant-Garde. Curator: Jean Clair, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec; 1999.06.17-1999.10.17
Further Venue: Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona, Spain; 1999.11.23-2000.02.20.
Further Venue: Palazzo Grassi, Venezia, Italia; 2000.03.24-2000.07.23.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in pen and black ink, on album page [removed] from left to right: Cape Bryan. [ink arrow upwards] Hannah Island. Cape Defosse. [ink arrow upwards] View from Bessels Bay. Cape Lieber. [ink arrow upwards] Lady Franklin Sound. [arrow upwards] / where the Discovery wintered. Grants land. Joe Id. Cape Morton [ink arrow upwards] / Cape Lupton [ink arrow upwards]
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landscape

N.W.T. : Bessels Fiord, Greenland, 1875

SUBJ. - Landscape : Depicting View Of Icebergs At Bessels Fiord, Greenland, 1875

British Arctic Expedition (1875-1876)

Greenland
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1936-259 PIC
00012
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
No restrictions on access or on use for reproduction or publication.

Box [1936-259]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A595/X2 Item no. assigned by LAC 12

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00012] C-27833

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1936-259-12
Copyright: Expired.

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Date modified:: 2024-07-24