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The Coup de Grace: Captain Percival Kills the Wounded Buffalo

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Date:

7 September 1881

Reference:

Box number: A090-02/X1

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2838995

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Sydney Prior Hall fonds

The Coup de Grace: Captain Percival Kills the Wounded Buffalo
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Date(s):

7 September 1881

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing : pencil, heightened with grey wash and opaque white on wove paper.
Support 30.300 x 38.300 cm
Image 30.300 x 38.300 cm
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Artist: Hall, Sydney Prior, 1842-1922

Depicted: Percival, Captain

Percival, Captain
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Removed from: Sketchbook: "Canada 1878 North-West 1881"
For a description of the event see Williams, William H. "Manitoba and the North-west: Journal of a Trip from Toronto to the Rocky Mountains via Lake Superior ... " (Toronto: Hunter, Rose, 1882), pp. 112-113.
Governor-General's Camp Red Deer River, en route Battleford to Fort Calgary, September 7, 1881
"[...] Louis La Ronde (one of the half-breed [Métis] guides) having now arrived on the scene, gives a third bull a shot in the neck, which brings him to a stand-still, but still it bellows and paws with such fury that tufts of turf and clouds of dust are tossed high above his towering black shoulders. Just at this moment Captain Percival and Mr. Sidney Hall, who have crossed the ravine on foot, reach the spot and the artist finds material for a marvellously spirited sketch while the captain rolls the monster bleeding upon the sod with two shots from his 'Winchester.' Meanwhile the herd passes along out of view and the buffalo hunt is over."

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: R.C.M.P.. Curators: Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; 1970.

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Inscribed. Dated., Inscription: in pencil, recto l.l.: The Coup de Grace / Cap. Percival kills the wounded buffalo / Sept 1
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SUBJ. - Hunting, Buffalo

Hunting

Chasse
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Private

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1984-045 X PIC
00192
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Graphic (art)

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

Box [1984-045]

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A090-02/X1 Item no. assigned by LAC 192

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Copy negative [1984-045]

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C-012994 Item no. assigned by LAC 192

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1984-45-192
Copyright: Expired

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