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Cutting Ice on Nun's Island

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

1957-1962

Reference:

R13133-257-0-E, Volume number: 13

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2934580

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Canadian Historical Prints and Watercolours Collection

Miscellaneous Christmas Cards

Cutting Ice on Nun's Island
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Date(s):

1957-1962

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 card : photomechanical reproduction ; 18.2 x 22.1 cm.

Language of material:

English

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Christmas card signed by Lawrence Lande, with a blue-tinted reproduction of a watercolour by H. Bunnett on the cover. Image depicts a winter scene on Nun's Island (around Montreal), showing men cutting ice, with a horse and small sleigh in the foreground.
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Artist: Bunnett, Henry Richard Sharland, 1845-1910

Correspondent: Lande, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Montague), 1906-
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General note:

Christmas card no. (old item no. on verso): 19
Inventory no. in Burnett artist file: III-17
See CD for unverified location information.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inside cover, left, l.l.: CUTTING ICE ON NUN'S ISLAND / Circa 1880. Watercolour by H. Bunnett from the Canadiana Collection / of Lawrence M. Lande. / The artist was a British Officer who at one time was employed / by David Ross McCord to sketch historical sites around Montreal. / Nun's Island has been the abode of the Congregation of Notre Dame / for more than two and one-half centuries. This Order was founded / by Marguerite Bourgeoys. Nun's Island was sold in 1957. / Linked by a new bridge to the north and south shores, the Island is the / site of a new residential development.
Inside cover, right: SEASON'S GREETINGS / (in manuscript pen) Lawrence Lande
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QUE., NUNS' ISLAND

SUBJ - DOMESTIC LIFE, ICE CUTTING

Transportation - Land - Sleighs
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Private
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R13133]

[Consultation 90 Open]

13 Item no. assigned by LAC 245

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative C-008822

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Copyright: unknown
Credit: Library and Archives Canada, acc. no. R13133-245

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