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Iroquois allant à la Découverte

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Item

Date:

1795

Reference:

R13133-185-1-E, Volume number: 12

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2837698

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Canadian Historical Prints and Watercolours Collection

Prints of American Indians by J.G. de St. Sauveur

Iroquois allant à la Découverte
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Date(s):

1795

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Place:

[Paris]:

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 print / estampe : etching, hand-coloured on laid paper, mounted on cardboard ; 24.3 x 15.8 cm.
Support 22.200 x 14.500 cm

Language of material:

French

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Image depicts a standing Iroquois man wearing snowshoes, holding a war club and beads. He is dressed in native costume, with a feathered headdress, and carries a gun and a hatchet.
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Artist: Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1810

Engraver: Laroque, J., fl. 1788-1796
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General note:

Removed from: Publication: likely from Encyclopédie des voyages by. J. Grasset de Saint Sauveur, vol. 5, Amérique (1796)
One inventory list of artist file indicates this as Inventory number II-12; another suggests it is II-14.

Copy negative number: C-003165

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed., Inscription: in the plate, recto, l.l.: J. Grasset St. Sauveur inv. Direx.; l.r.: J. Laroque Sculp.; b.: Iroquois allant a la Decouverte
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Iroquois Indians

Portraits

Traditional clothing
Source:

Private
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access restricted due to fragility

Volume [R13133]

[Consultation 90 Open]

12 Item no. assigned by LAC 175

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, acc. no. R13133-175
Copyright: Expired

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