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Cutting Away Windfalls After a Snowstorm

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

1881

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2838295

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

Cutting Away Windfalls After a Snowstorm
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Date(s):

1881

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : brown wash over pencil on wove paper laid down
Support 16.600 x 25.300 cm
Secondary support 30.800 x 40.600 cm

Language of material:

no language

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Image depicting a forest with trees overburdened with snow, and a man attemting to clear a road by hacking away at wayward branches with an axe., There is a slight tear in the primary support's lower edge. The secondary support is dirty around the edges and has a few nicks taken out of its lower part. Additionally, something seems to have been torn away from the right side of the mount (a hinged matting?)

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Artist: Harvey, George H., 1846-1910

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Alpha-numeric note:

Sotheby's inventory no. W316.2

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in brown wash, recto l.r.: 9 [?] / 18GH81; mount recto l.c.: Cutting away windfalls after a snowstorm; (complete transcription)

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253 : v
Subject heading:

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Nova Scotia

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Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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00253
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Graphic (art)

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

Item no. assigned by LAC [R9266] 253

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00253] C-150569

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-253V Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: Expired

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