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Rock with tripe-de-roche lichen

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

[between January and March 1821].

Reference:

Box number: BK-004

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2963395

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George Back fonds

Franklin Expedition to the Canadian Arctic Sketchbooks by George Back

George Back's sketchbook

Rock with tripe-de-roche lichen
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

[between January and March 1821].

Place:

Present-day Northwest Territories:

Place of creation:

Northwest Territories

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour over pencil on wove paper
Support x cm

Language of material:

English

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Sketch showing a rock covered with tripe-de-roche lichen, likely sketched near Fort Enterprise in early 1821. The expedition would eventually be reduced to eating boiled tripe-de-roche in an effort to fend off starvation.

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Artist: Back, George, Sir, 1796-1878

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Physical description note:

This item is one page (folio 55 verso) of a bound sketchbook, which can also be accessed in cover-to-cover form.

Availability of other formats note:

C-145967 has been assigned to the blank folio 56 recto. A colour transparency of folio 56 recto is available only on the form of the double page spread C-145968. This page has also been copied as C-141459 and C-145966.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed., Inscription: in pen and brown ink, t.: "Rock with / Tripe de Roche"; in pencil, u.r.: "1 light grey / 2 light green / 3 mountain green / Black / 4 lightnd; c.: 4"; (Complete transcription)
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plante

Plant

Northwest Territories

Territoires du Nord-Ouest
Source:

Private

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1994-254 DAP
00001.55V
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access under supervision of art archivist

Box [1994-254]

[Consultation 90 Open]

BK-004 Item no. assigned by LAC 1.55V

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1994-254]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-141459;

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-145966--C-145968;

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1994-254-1.55V. Acquired with the assistance of Hoechst and Celanese Canada and with a grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage under the Cultural Property Export and Import Act
Copyright: Expired

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