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Plants found on Melville Island

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Item

Date:

July 1822

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3000548

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George Back fonds

Miscellaneous watercolours and drawings by George Back and others

Plants found on Melville Island
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Date(s):

July 1822

Place of creation:

Northwest Territories

Extent:

1 watercolour: watercolour over pencil on beige wove paper
Support 28.000 x 36.000 cm

Language of material:

no language

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Plants found on Melville Island, 1822 by A. Jackson. Some of the plants have been identified with faint pencil inscriptions., The verso of the sheet supports a pencil profile drawing.

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Artist: Jackson, A. active ca. 1821-1824

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Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: Out there is Somewhere: The Arctic in Pictures. Curators: Casandra Getty & Peter White, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario; 2002.03.22-2002.05.27
Further Venue: Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta; 2002.09.06-2002.11.03

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in pen and brown ink, recto l.c.: Plants found on Melville Island. / Copied from Mr. Beechey's by / A. Jackson.; in pencil, recto c.l.: July 1822; (Partial transcription)
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Northwest Territories

plante

Plant
Source:

Private

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1997-280 DAP
00003
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
No restrictions on access or on use for reproductions or publication.

Copy negative [1997-00280] C-144487

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Copyright: Expired

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