Collection search - Prairie Farm at Boughton Ville near Dwight, Illinois

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Prairie Farm at Boughton Ville near Dwight, Illinois

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Date:

September 22-24, 1860

Reference:

Box number: BK-278

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2859755

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Sir Henry Wentworth Acland fonds

Sketches in North America

Volume VI - Miscellaneous Sketches

Prairie Farm at Boughton Ville near Dwight, Illinois
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

September 22-24, 1860

Place of creation:

Illinois

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour over black chalk on buff wove paper
Support 30.000 x 52.000 cm
Secondary support 54.700 x 36.900 cm

Language of material:

no language

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A depiction of a praire farm in Illinois, featuring the assorted livestock and various crops

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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 40, vol. VI, recto.

Availability of other formats note:

Copy transparency available: C-128569

Dates of creation note:

The artist dated the drawing incorrectly

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Dated., Inscription: inscribed in pen and brown ink, on folio, recto, b.: Prairie Farm. nr James Edward Morris. Boughton Ville - Dwight. sept. 14. 1860. / 2 horses. 5 cows - Gourds - Whear. Indian Corn - Cherrytrees - 2 pigs. chickens. Pigeons. Firewood Rye. Peach trees. Slew. Sodcorn. (complete)

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Sir Henry Wentworth Acland Collection, Sketches in North America; Volume VI: Miscellaneous Sketches
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Plants

Frontier & pioneer life

Farms - Illinois

Boughton Ville (Ill.)

Chickens

Animals

Farming

Illinois

Visits of state Canada 1860

Visites officielles Canada 1860
Source:

Private

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1986-007 PIC
00277
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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-278 Item no. assigned by LAC 277

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1986-007] C-128569

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1986-7-277
Copyright: Expired

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