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Junction of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers

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Item

Date:

September 24, 1860

Reference:

Box number: BK-218

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2859703

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Sir Henry Wentworth Acland fonds

Sketches in North America

Volume V - Sarnia, United States and Home

Junction of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

September 24, 1860

Place of creation:

Missouri

Extent:

1 drawing : watercolour over pencil and black chalk on buff wove paper
Support 13.800 x 21.800
Secondary support 29.700 x 24.800

Language of material:

no language

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A depiction of the junction of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, with their wide expanses of sandbars

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Artist: Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900

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Physical description note:

This item is mounted on folio 38, vol. V, recto.

Citation/reference note:

cited in Acland, p. 144

Availability of other formats note:

Copy transparency available: C-128478

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed., Inscription: (complete), Inscription: inscribed in pencil, on image, b.: 1/2 a mile width(?) of sandbars - Missippi - after junction of Missouri v (bird key to sketch); on folio, in pen and brown ink, l.l.: V (bird, key to sketch) / Missouri; l.c.: United Missouri & Missippi; l.r.: Missippi; across b.: Having passed the junction of the Missouri & Missippi, looking back we see the mouth / of the Missouri, after it has been running down 2500 miles - navigable all the way

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Sir Henry Wentworth Acland Collection, Sketches in North America; Volume V: Sarnia, United States and Home
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Rivers

landscape

paysage

Mississippi River

Missouri River

Sandbars

Missouri

Visits of state Canada 1860

Visites officielles Canada 1860
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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1986-007 PIC
00230
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access restricted. Documents require special handling because of fragility.

Box [1986-007]

[Consultation 90 Open]

BK-218 Item no. assigned by LAC 230

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1986-007] C-128478

[Consultation 90 Open]

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