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The Falls of Wilberforce, Northwest Territories

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Date:

1823

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Box number: A009-02

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

2913509

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George Back fonds

Prints published after original works by George Back

The Falls of Wilberforce, Northwest Territories
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Date(s):

1823

Place:

London

Place of creation:

United Kingdom

Extent:

1 print / estampe : Engraving
Support 44.100 x 30.400 cm
Image 29.000 x 22.700 cm

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no language

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Print entitled "The Falls of Wilberforce, Northwest Territories" ralted to the 1819-1822 Franklin Arctic Expedition.

View of the falls flowing through the mountains.
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Artist: Back, George, Sir, 1796-1878

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

Removed from: Set: Illustrations for Narrative of a Journey to the Shore of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819, 20, 21 and 22 by John Franklin.

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.: THE FALLS OF WILBERFORCE/ Estimated at 250 feet high/ Published March 1823, by John Murray, London.
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landscape

paysage
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Private

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00002
1992-548 x DAP
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [1992-548]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A009-02 Item no. assigned by LAC 2

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1992-548-2
Copyright: Expired

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