Collection search - Letter to Peggy Nelson Dixon with scenes from Bonsecours Market and the Champ de Mars

Record information – Brief
1
Letter to Peggy Nelson Dixon with scenes from Bonsecours Market and the Champ de Mars

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

July 21, 1925

Reference:

R704

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3000606

Context of this record:

Show detail Hide detail

Paul Archibald Caron fonds

Letter to Peggy Nelson Dixon with scenes from Bonsecours Market and the Champ de Mars
Link to this record

Add to My Research

Link to this record

This link identifies the web page describing this particular record. Unlike the temporary link in your browser, this link will allow you to access, and reference, this page in the future. To link to this descriptive record, copy and paste the URL where ever needed (wiki, blog, document).

Sign in

Sign in to start saving records using My Research

Sign in
Record information – Details
Date(s):

July 21, 1925

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing / dessin : pen and black ink and charcoal on laid paper
Support 20.700 x 31.900 cm

Scope and content:

Show detail Hide detail

This letter is part of a group of 19 letters that was produced between April 1925 and July 1926, with a gap between November 1925 and the last letter. Caron has illustrated this particular letter with thumbnail sketches of scenes from Bonsecours Market and the Champ de Mars., Caron has written and drawn on both the recto and the verso of the support, producing 3 thumbnail sketches in total.

Additional name(s):

Show detail Hide detail

Artist: Caron, Paul Archibald, 1874-1941

Additional information:

Show detail Hide detail

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in pen and black ink, recto l.c.: Toujours / Paul; u.r.: July the / twenty-first; u.c.: Chère Peggy; in pen and green ink, recto c.: Friday / / / Habitant woman / in blue raincoat / leaning against / her cart/; b.: sketched on the Champ de Mars; in pen and green ink, verso c.l.: The hoof of / the horse / that scorned / me:/ / perhaps he / would have / kicked me- / -"foolish notion"/; l.l.: This charcoal / paper is very / hard to write / upon>- though / it is so fine / for drawing-; c.: A habitant girl / sitting on a cart / under one of those / huge umbrellas, / surreptitiously / powdering her / little nose;-; l.c.: she saw me / making this / sketch, and hid / the puff and / looking glass; / her rosy cheeks / put the powder / to shame! / I was sorry./; (Partial Transcription)
Subject heading:

Show detail Hide detail

other

autre

letter / lettre
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

Show detail Hide detail

00009
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Show detail Hide detail

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
To be viewed with the assistance of an art archivist

Item no. assigned by LAC [R704] 9

[Consultation 90 Open]

Terms of use:

Show detail Hide detail

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1998-R704-9
Copyright: Estate of the artist

You can order materials in advance to be ready for you when you visit. You will need a user card to do this.

Cannot visit us on site? You can purchase a copy to be sent to you. Some restrictions may apply.

Report a problem on this page

Date modified:: 2024-06-27