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Aurora Borealis at Lady Franklin Bay, Ellesmere Island
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Record information Aurora Borealis at Lady Franklin Bay, Ellesmere Island
Date:ca. 1875-1876Reference:Box number: A146-01/X1Type of material:ArtFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:2834012Date(s):ca. 1875-1876Bilingual equivalent:Place of creation:No place, unknown, or undeterminedExtent:1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil with scraping out on wove paper
Support 24.900 x 35.300 cmLanguage of material:no languageScope and content:Watercolour on folio 17 recto in album with 23 foliosAdditional name(s):Additional information: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. Folio 17 recto..Availability of other formats note:Colour transparency availableExhibitions note:Exhibition title: Image of Canada / Visage du Canada. Curators: Michael Bell, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1972.01.19 - 1972.03.15, cat. no.: no. 72. Further venue: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec; 1972.08.10 - 1972.09.30., Further venue: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario; 1972.11.16 - 1973.01.13., Further venue: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan; 1973.02.04 - 1973.02.24., Further venue: Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba; 1973.03.19 - 1973.04.22., Further venue: Glenbow Alberta Institute, Calgary, Alberta; 1973.10.01 - 1973.10.31., Further venue: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Colombia; 1973.12.01 - 1973.12.31., Further venue: Victoria Art Gallery, Victoria, British Colombia; 1974.01.15 - 1974.02.15., Further venue: Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland; 1974.04.01 - 1974.04.30., Further venue: Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick; 1974.05.15 - 1974.06.15., Further venue: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia; 1974.09.15 - 1974.10.01., Exhibition Title: Cosmos: From Romanticism to the Avant-garde. Curator: Jean Clair, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts; 1999.06.17-1999.10.17.
Further Venue: Palazzo Grassi, Venezia, Italia; 2000.03.24-2000.07.23., Exhibition Title: The Light that Fills the World. Curator: René Picard, Canadian Embassy Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.; 1989.09.19-1990.01.15Signatures and inscriptions note:Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in pen and black ink, on album page [removed]: The Aurora Borealis - as we always saw it - Was like a luminous hanging curtain waving in the wind. / Guide posts to observatory. [ink arrow upwards]Subject heading:Source:PrivateOther accession no.:1936-259 PIC
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No restrictions on access or on use for reproduction or publication.Box [1936-259][Consultation Open]A146-01/X1 Item no. assigned by LAC 16[Consultation Open]Copy negative [1936-259][Consultation Open]C-027821 Item no. assigned by LAC 16[Consultation Open]Terms of use:Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1936-259-16
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