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Winter View of Fort Enterprise: Snow Melting, May 21, 1821

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Date:

1823

Reference:

Box number: A009-02

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2913497

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George Back fonds

Prints published after original works by George Back

Winter View of Fort Enterprise: Snow Melting, May 21, 1821
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Date(s):

1823

Place:

Albermarle Street, London

Place of creation:

United Kingdom

Place of printing:

Northumberland Court, London

Extent:

1 print / estampe : etching and engraving
Support 30.100 x 44.100 cm
Image 22.700 x 27.500 cm

Language of material:

no language

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Print entitled "Winter View of Fort Enterprise: Snow Melting, May 21, 1821" related to the 1819-1822 Franklin Arctic expedition.

View of the winter landscape near Fort Enterprise. This image was numbered II-4b. Original watercolour on which this is based is owned by DAP.
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Artist: Back, George, Sir, 1796-1878

Engraver: Finden, Edward Francis, 1791-1857
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General note:

Set: Illustrations for Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819, 20, 21 and 22 by John Franklin. Plate 11, facing p. 246.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Dated., Inscription: On the plate, recto, l.l.: Drawn by Lieut. Back R.N.; l.r.: Engraved by Edw Finden; b.: WINTER VIEW OF FORT ENTERPRIZE/ Snow melting May 13, 1821/ Published March 1823 by John Murray, London.
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Northwest Territories

landscape

paysage
Source:

Private

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1992-547 X DAP
00003
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
No restrictions on access or on use for reproduction or publication.

Box [1992-547]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A009-02 Item no. assigned by LAC 3

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1992-547]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-005202 Item no. assigned by LAC 3

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1992-547-3
Copyright: Expired

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