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A Black Canadian Wood Cutter at Shelburne, Nova Scotia

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Date:

1788

Reference:

R3908-1-2-E, Volume number: 1547

Type of material:

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Item ID number:

2836297

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W.H. Coverdale collection of Canadiana

A Black Canadian Wood Cutter at Shelburne, Nova Scotia
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Date(s):

1788

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour sketch
Image 16.500 x 22.700

Language of material:

no language

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Laid down, middle and corners. Hinges on mount vers. Discoloured. Diagonal black crease marks across u.r. corner. Laid paper, water-marked., Sir Robert Ker Porter Collection. Sale, Christies, 1843. Manoir Richelieu Collection., Dictionary Nat. Biog. XVI, "Porter" 190-192., Digitization project: Living Memory/Mémoire Vivante.

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Artist: Booth, William, 1748-1826

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General note:

"A Black Wood Cutter at Shelburne, Nova Scotia" (Caption title, Canadian History Hall)

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available.

Reproduction note:

A reproduction of this painting was made for Canadian History Hall, 2017.07.01--

Exhibitions note:

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Exhibition title: W.H. Coverdale Collection of Canadiana. Curators: Michael Bell, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario;1973.06.22 - 1973.08.30, cat. no.: no. 24., Further venue: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario; 1974.01.01 - 1974.01.30., Further venue: The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario; 1974.03.01 - 1974.03.30., Further venue: The Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario; 1974.09.01 - 1974.09.30., Further venue: Department of Fine Arts, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario; 1974.11.01 - 1974.11.30., Further venue: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan; 1975.01.01 - 1975.01.30., Further venue: Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; 1975.02.01 - 1975.03.15., Further venue: Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick; 1975.03.15 - 1975.04.30., Further venue: State University of New York, New York; 1976.09.11 - 1976.10.17., Further venue: Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum Spokane, Washington D.C.; 1976.11.06 - 1976.12.05., Further venue: Rexburg College, Idaho; 1977.01.01 - 1977.01.30., Further venue: Colby College, Waterville, Maine; 1977.05.09 - 1977.06.08., Further venue: Smithsonain Institution, Washington D.C.; 1977.05.28 - 1977.06.26., Exhibition title: The Loyal Americans. Curators: Bernard Pothair, Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Ontario; 1983.06.04 -1983.09.04., Exhibition Title: 1783: Subject or Citizen? The Treaty of Paris. Curator: Michael Eamon, Library and Archives Canada, and Lisa Royse, National Archives and Records Administration, Ottawa, Ontario; 2008.05.06-2008.08.05.

Further Venue: National Archives and Records Administration- O'Brien Gallery, Washington, DC; 2008.10.03-2009.01.25., Exhibition Title: Treasured Memories 5: A National Archives of Canada Exhibition. Curator: Michel Anne Crawley, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2001.01.22 - 2001.11.12

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: Signed in pencil, recto, u.l., by "W. Booth Engrs." Above this, "A Black Wood Cutter at Shelburne, Nova Scotia 1788." Inscribed on mount, verso, "brother in law of Sir Robt. Ker Porter - Ambassador to Rome & - the Miss[e]s Porter Jane & Anne Maria -"
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Shelburne (N.S.)

Nova Scotia

work

SUBJ. - Portrait : Depicting A Black Wood Cutter - 1788

SUBJ. - Work : Wood Cutting And Lumbering

SUBJ - IMMIGRATION & COLONIZATION, African American
Source:

Private

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1970-188 PIC
01090
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Graphic (art)

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

Volume [R3908] 1547

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1970-188]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-040162 Item no. assigned by LAC 1090

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1970-188-1090 W.H. Coverdale Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: Expired

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