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Study of Twenty-Eight Butterflies and Moths

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Date:

ca. 1827-1841.

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Box number: A018-01

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

2839626

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Fanny Amelia Bayfield Fonds

Study of Twenty-Eight Butterflies and Moths
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

ca. 1827-1841.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour with silver metallic paint, black ink, opaque white, heightened with gum arabic over pencil on paper
Support 26.000 x 36.000 cm

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no language

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This work has been photographed twice (C-35992 and C-133311).

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Artist: Bayfield, Fanny Amelia, 1814-1891

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General note:

Removed from: Album: "Canadian Wildflowers" by Fanny Bayfield in the years ca. 1831-1850

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: First Impressions: European View of the Natural History of Canada. Curators: Victoria Dickenson, Tobi Bruce, Agnes Etherington Art Centre; 1992.09.20-1992.11.22.
Further Venue: Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery Concordia University: 1993.01.07-1993.02.20.
Further Venue: Mendel Art Gallery Saskatoon Saskatchewan: 1993.05.07-1993.06.27.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed., Inscription: in pen and brown ink, recto, [24 of the 28 butterflies and moths are numbered]; in pen and brown ink, recto l.l.: 1. Vanepa Furcillata. / 6. Gonopteridae libratrix / 11. / 16. / 21 Melitaea Tharos; l.c.: 2 Gamma (Linn) 3 Lambucaria._ 4._ / 7._ 8._ 9. / 12. Army worm Moth. 13._ 14. / 17. 18. 19. / 22. Spilosoma Menthostri 23. Aglgja (Linn) 24. Thanaos (Boisd); l.r.: 5. / 10. Phalaena Matronula. / 15_ / 20._ / 25. Hesperia Cernes; in pencil, recto l.c.: Aegysmumis myrina / outapteria; l.l.: Pap:Asterias_
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Moths

Butterflies

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Private

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1963-103 PIC
00074
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access restricted due to fragility. No restrictions on reproduction or publication

Box [1963-103]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A018-01 Item no. assigned by LAC 74

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1963-103]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-035992 Item no. assigned by LAC 74

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1963-103-74 Gift of Captain Boulton
Copyright: Expired

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