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Erecting the land line for the Trans Atlantic Cable

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Date:

1866

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2838300

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2008 Acquisition

Robert Dudley - The Atlantic cable watercolours

Erecting the land line for the Trans Atlantic Cable
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Date(s):

1866

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour, touches of gouache, over pencil on wove paper
Image 24.800 x 34.600 cm

Language of material:

no language

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Subject depicts a landscape with many figures in the foreground; in l.r. two figures are erecting a pole; in l.l. there are two cone tents with men standing in the doorway; at bottom margin there are two children, one sitting, one holding a rake?, On the old secondary support, now missing - the inscription read, Erecting the land line for the Trans Atlantic Cable at Valentia, Ireland, Condition: c.r. small tear, yellowed

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Artist: Dudley, Robert Charles, 1826-1909

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General note:

Removed from: Set: One of three watercolours by the same artist concerning the Atlantic Cable.

Alpha-numeric note:

Sotheby's inventory no. W279

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: The Peter Winkworth Collections of Canadiana: Rocky Shores and Stormy Seas- The Atlantic Region. Curator: Jim Burant, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2006.03.05-04.22.2007.

Further Venue: Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; 2006.03.05-2006.05.14.

Further Venue: The Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick; 2006.06.16-2006.09.03.

Further Venue: The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's Newfoundland; 2007.02.02-2007.04.22.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: in brushpoint, recto, b.: R. Dudley
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Newfoundland and Labrador

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Private

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00177
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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] 177

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00177] C-150022

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-177 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: expired

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