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Prairie Birds

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Date:

1887-1891

Reference:

Box number: 2000790682

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2903597

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Edward D. Roper fonds

Prairie Birds
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Date(s):

1887-1891

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : grey wash with opaque white on wove paper mounted on cardboard
Support 38.400 x 26.800 cm

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This drawing is reproduced in Edward Roper's "By Track and Trail, A Journey Through Canada" (London, 1891), p.73.

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Artist: Roper, Edward, 1833-1909

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Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: in pen and black ink, recto, l.r.: ER [in monogram] oper; c., written vertically in the tree: POPLAR/ [written horizontally in the tree] COTTAN/ -WOOD; l.r., written in the tree: ER [in monogram] oper del; l.l.: 1 Robin, (Canada Thrush)/ 2 Sap Sucker (a woodpecker)/ 3 Redwinged Starling/ 4 Rosy Grosbeak/ 5 Immature Buffalo Bird/ 6 Mature " " [5 and 6 are grouped together and followed by:] Cow Troopials/ 7 Eye Holder - High holder, (Golden winged/ woodpecker); in the image numbers are keyed on to corresponding birds perching and in flight; l.r.: several inscriptions obscured by opaque white; in pen and red ink, recto, l.l.: 12 [circled in red ink] Cut for Type; in pencil, verso, l.l.: 6253 Roper

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animal

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Private

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1989-176 DAP
00033
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
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Box [1989-176]

[Consultation 90 Open]

2000790682 Item no. assigned by LAC 33

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1989-176-33
Copyright: Expired

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