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Encampment on an island in Lake Superior showing trees, which are a mixture of pine, birch & poplar

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Date:

n.d.

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Art

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2956916

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John Jeremiah Bigsby fonds

Encampment on an island in Lake Superior showing trees, which are a mixture of pine, birch & poplar
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Date(s):

n.d.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 Drawing : Pen and ink over pencil
Support 9.600 x 18.400 cm

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The image is from a grangerized copy of Bigsby's 1850 publication The Shoe and Canoe to which Bigsby added or iserted additional drawings, prints and maps, as well as annotations on many pages., This work is listed in artist file 705-302 as Bigsby I-47.

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Artist: Bigsby, John J. (John Jeremiah), 1792-1881

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General note:

publication: In Bigsby, John J., "The shoe and canoe, or, Pictures of travel in the Canadas...," London: Chapman and Hall, 1850, vol. 2, glued down to recto of folio inserted between pp. 168-169

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: Inscribed, in pen and ink, u.l., in ink: x very thick round bushes / Trees a mixture of pine, birch & poplar - all put down here are nearly portraits; l.c., in image: Sand and gravel & shrubs.
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Ontario

landscape
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Private

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1939-447 PIC
00074
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Material must be examined under the supervision of an art archivist. No restrictions on use for reproduction or publication.

Item no. assigned by LAC [00074] 74

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00074] C-011668

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1939-447-74
Copyright: Expired

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