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Nearing the Devil's Gap, Rat Portage (Kenora)

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Date:

29 July 1881

Reference:

Box number: A088-02

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2838860

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Sydney Prior Hall fonds

Nearing the Devil's Gap, Rat Portage (Kenora)
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Date(s):

29 July 1881

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing / dessin : pencil and black ink on laid paper
Support 17.500 x 11.200 cm
Image 17.500 x 11.200 cm

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Artist: Hall, Sydney Prior, 1842-1922

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General note:

Removed from: Sketchbook: "Canada 1878 North-West 1881"

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Dated., Inscription: in pencil, recto b.: Nearing the Devil's Gap. Rat Portage. July 29. / red ... at top. . . toy. Wharf ... [illegible]; in pencil, verso u.l.: [2]9 July / The [^tug] restored our barge / as be near Rat Portage. / It was very nearly dark and / the funnel of our tug and that / army to the right of us made a great / display of fireworks. / Myriads of snake-like little sparks / darted out and fell ... the / water suggesting / from the / Ancient mariner. / Beyond the shadow of the ship / I watched the water snakes. / They moved in tracks of shining white / and as they neared the elfin light. / Fell off in hoary flakes. / X X X X / They curled & swam & ... track / Was a flake of golden foil.
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Ontario

landscape

paysage

ONT., DEVILS GAP

ONT., RAT PORTAGE
Source:

Private

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1984-045 X PIC
00064
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Graphic (art)

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

Box [1984-045]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A088-02 Item no. assigned by LAC 64

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1984-045]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-012864 Item no. assigned by LAC 64

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1984-45-64
Copyright: Expired

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