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Action at Cut-Knife Creek

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Date:

May 2, 1885

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2838413

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

Action at Cut-Knife Creek
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Date(s):

May 2, 1885

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil on wove paper
Image 17.000 x 25.500 cm
Secondary support 23.200 x 30.500 cm

Language of material:

no language

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Subject depicts the battle at Cut Knife Creek, Saskatchewan on May 2, 1885, at 12:30 p.m. In the foreground are three men, with two tending the cannon. The third man has his back to the viewer and appears to be looking through binoculars at the battle. In the middle ground, soldiers are walking through the brush toward the lower right of the scene. Several soldiers are visible on the hill., Sotheby's inventory no. W500., Item is attached to a secondary support, which is hinged to a window mat. On the back of the secondary support are three newspaper clippings and part of a photograph. On clipping refers to the funeral of Miss Wadmore. Another clipping is a poem entitled After Death. The third clipping refers to an endowment to a hospital by the children of Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Wadmore. The partial photograph is a black and white image of two graves. The inscription on one grave is readable and someone wrote a caption under the image on the secondary support. The inscription reads: Grave of Captain Hebden / Essex Regt. / South Africa died 1900

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Artist: Wadmore, Robinson Lyndhurst, 1855-1915

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General note:

The Battle of Cut Knife was fought on May 2, 1885. It occurred when a small force of Cree and Assiniboine were attacked by 325 troops composed of North-West Mounted Police, "B" Battery, "C" Company, Foot Guards, Queen's Own and the Battleford Rifles led by Lt. Col. W.D. Otter. The Cree and Assiniboine defeated the Canadian forces, with losses on both sides.
The North-West Rebellion (or North-West Resistance) was a five-month insurgency against the Canadian government, fought mainly by the Métis and their First Nations allies.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: The Peter Winkworth Collections of Canadiana: Vast New Lands- Canada's Northwest. Curator: Jim Burant, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2006.11.25 -2007.08.29.

Further Venue: Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba; 2006.11.25-2007.01.21.

Further Venue: Red Deer and District Museum, Red Deer, Alberta; 2007.02.17 - 2007.04.15.

Further Venue: RCMP Heritage Centre, Regina, Saskatchewan; 2007.06.30-2007.08.29.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: in brushpoint, recto, l.r. on image: RL WADMORE.; recto, in ink on secondary support below image: Action & retrievement Cut Knife Hill / May 2. 1885 12.30 p m.; in ink, recto, c and l.c. on backing from frame (item no longer framed), located in same folder: "ACTION AT CUT-KNIFE CREEK" / NORTH-WEST CANADA / 1885 / SKETCHED ON THE SCENE BY / LIEUT. R.L. WADMORE, ROYAL SCHOOL OF INFANTRY / (LATER COLONEL, ROYAL CANADIAN REGIMENT
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Saskatchewan

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Source:

Private

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00398
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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] 398

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00398] C-150394

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-398 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: expired

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