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"Keep Out", a sign warning off the crew from the wreck of the Premier (4 November 1843), Cape Chat, St. Lawrence River

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ca. 1845

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Box number: A059-01

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2901525

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George Russell Dartnell fonds

"Keep Out", a sign warning off the crew from the wreck of the Premier (4 November 1843), Cape Chat, St. Lawrence River
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Date(s):

ca. 1845

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

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1 drawing / dessin : pencil on wove paper
Support 10.400 x 14.800 cm

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This drawing is reproduced as a woodengraving in Dartnell's "A brief narrative of the shipwreck of the Transport 'Premier' near the mouth of the St. Lawrence, on the 4th November, 1843...," (London, 1845), p. 16., The following passage from Dartnell's narrative (pp. 15-16) decribes the present drawing: "The failure of this, almost our last apparent hope of communicating with the shore, was a sad damper to the spirits of those on board the wreck; nor did they derive much consolation or encouragement from the following little incident. On the beach, and nearly abreast of the ship, lay the root and stump of a large up-torn tree: around this, soon after the capsize of the launch, we observed some persons, collected, endeavouring to direct our attention to something they had stuck up on the stump. Our curiosity was naturally excited by this circumstance, and the telescope was handed from one to the other of those who were thought to have the steadiest hand and the keenest eye, but it was not for a considerable time (owing to the distance, and continued lurching and rolling of the ship) that we discovered the object to be a black board, on which were chalked, in large letters, the somewhat, doubtful words "Keep out." This we interpreted, as it was intended, into an advise not to make any further attempts to land; and our translation of the little memorandum was soon after confirmed by observing a boat drawn on to the sand, with her black side toward the ship, on which our shore friends had printed, more legibly, the more encouraging words "No Rocks - sea going down - keep out."

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Artist: Dartnell, George R., 1798-1878

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Inscription: in pencil, recto, c. in image: KEEP OUT; in pen and black ink, verso, t.: No.1-To be introduced in page 16 / of the Manuscript - (complete transcription)
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landscape

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Private

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1991-129 DAP
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Graphic (art)

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Box [1991-129]

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A059-01 Item no. assigned by LAC 1

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Copy negative [1991-129]

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C-138041 Item no. assigned by LAC 1

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-129-1
Copyright: Expired

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