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Rock Portage on the Hayes River

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

September 1819.

Reference:

Box number: BK-004

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2963405

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George Back fonds

Franklin Expedition to the Canadian Arctic Sketchbooks by George Back

George Back's sketchbook

Rock Portage on the Hayes River
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Record information – Details

Date(s):

September 1819.

Place:

Near York Factory in present-day Manitoba:

Place of creation:

Manitoba

Extent:

1 drawing : pen and brown ink on wove paper.
Support x cm

Language of material:

English

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Rough sketch of Rock Portage on the Hayes River, near the outset of the expedition from York Factory. This item depicts a leg of the portage route from Hudson's Bay toward Lake Winnipeg, of significance to the Métis Nation.

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Artist: Back, George, Sir, 1796-1878

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Physical description note:

This item is one page (folio 60 verso) of a bound sketchbook, which can also be accessed in cover-to-cover form.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency of the item before conservation is of the double page spread, folio 60 verso and 61 recto (C-141468 and C-141469). This page has also been copied as C-146888 and C-146890.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in pen and brown ink, t.: "GBack"; c.: "Trees do do Trees"; b.: "Rock Portage - Hill River / Sep 1819"; (Complete transcription)

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Manitoba

Source:

Private

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1994-254 DAP
00001.60V
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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 1.60V

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1994-254]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-141468;

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-146888;

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-146890;

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1994-254-1.60V. 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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