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SW View of Great Slave Lake

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Item

Date:

August 1820.

Reference:

Box number: BK-005

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2964153

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George Back fonds

Franklin Expedition to the Canadian Arctic Sketchbooks by George Back

George Back's sketchbook

SW View of Great Slave Lake
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

August 1820.

Place:

Northwest Territories:

Place of creation:

Northwest Territories

Extent:

1 drawing : pencil on wove paper.
Support 11.100 x 18.300 cm

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Unfinished sketch of a southwest view of Great Slave Lake. There are boats as well as birds gliding over the lake.

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Artist: Back, George, Sir, 1796-1878

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Physical description note:

This item is one page (folio 78 recto) of a bound sketchbook, which can also be accessed in cover-to-cover form.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available: C-141522

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Dated., Inscription: in pencil, recto, b.: "S W View of Gt Slave Lake - Aug 1820"; (Complete transcription)
Subject heading:

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Northwest Territories

Territoires du Nord-Ouest
Source:

Private

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1994-254 DAP
00002.78R
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access under supervision of art archivist

Box [1994-254]

[Consultation 90 Open]

BK-005 Item no. assigned by LAC 2.78R

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1994-254] C-141522

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1994-254-2.78R. 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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