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An Autumn view of a part of the Brokenhead Ojibway Indian Reserve near the lower end of Lake Winnipeg, (Manitoba)

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Date:

August 31, 1891

Reference:

R1433

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

3003185

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Edward Francis Wilson fonds

An Autumn view of a part of the Brokenhead Ojibway Indian Reserve near the lower end of Lake Winnipeg, (Manitoba)
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Date(s):

August 31, 1891

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil on heavy wove paper
Support 17.600 x 21.100 cm

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An Autumn view of a part of the Brokenhead Ojibway Indian Reserve near the lower end of Lake Winnipeg, (Manitoba). Depicted (foreground) is a largely open grassy area, containing a few shrubs and showing a duck hunter (his back to the viewer), holding a shotgun in his right hand. He is standing somewhat back from the edge of a river / inlet looking in the general direction of a beached sailboat, over which a flock of wild ducks are in flight. Near the far bank of the river / inlet is a one storey dwelling partly enclosed by a small wooded area

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Artist: Wilson, Edward F. (Edward Francis), 1844-1915

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Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in brush, with olive sepia watercolour and pencil, recto, b.l. to b.r.: "Brokenhead - (Lake Winnipeg) [----] Aug 31 / 91"; in pencil, verso, t.l.: "(2)"; t.r.: "E.F. Wilson"; (contemporary inscription) in blue ball point pen, on the verso of the former mount (i.e. secondary support, since removed), "Brokenhead - Lake Winnipeg - [----] August 31, 1891 / painting by Rev. Edward Francis Wilson - / it is believed that the figure in this picture is the artist's eldest son Archibald Edward Wilson -"
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Manitoba

Indian

Hunting
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Private

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00007
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Item no. assigned by LAC [R1433] 7

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R1433-7
Copyright: Expired

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