Collection search - Two views of the wreck of the Transport Premier near Cape Chat, St. Lawrence River

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Two views of the wreck of the Transport Premier near Cape Chat, St. Lawrence River

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Date:

1843-1845

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Box number: A059-01

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Item ID number:

2902119

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George Russell Dartnell fonds

Two views of the wreck of the Transport Premier near Cape Chat, St. Lawrence River
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Date(s):

1843-1845

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing / dessin : pen and brown ink over pencil on wove paper
Support 22.800 x 17.900 cm

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no language

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These images are not reproduced in Dartnell's "A brief narrative of the shipwreck of the Transport 'Premier,' near the mouth of the river St. Lawrence, on the 4th November, 1843...," (London, 1843), however, the top image is related to plate 3, "Upsetting of the Launch in the Surf of Cape Chatte Bay," and the bottom image is related to plate 4, "Landing of the troops, women and children from the wreck."

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Artist: Dartnell, George R., 1798-1878

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Inscription: in pen and brown ink, recto, top: Wreck of the Tranport Premier in Cape Chatte Bay - near mouth of / R. St Laurence - 4 Nov. 1843 - Boat swamped in the surf - Lysons being dragged / on shore - / Looking toward S..; across centre of sheet: Wreck of the Transport Premier - 4 Nov 1843 - Cape Chatte in the / distance - Looking toward N.W. (complete transcription)
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1991-129 DAP
00019
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Graphic (art)

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Box [1991-129]

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A059-01 Item no. assigned by LAC 19

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Copy negative [1991-129]

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C-138051 Item no. assigned by LAC 19

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-129-19
Copyright: Expired

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