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Portrait of General James Wolfe directing operations at Quebec

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Date:

ca. 1766

Reference:

R7025

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

3011872

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Sotheron-Estcourt Family Fonds

Portrait of General James Wolfe directing operations at Quebec
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Date(s):

ca. 1766

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Place of creation:

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Extent:

1 painting : oil on canvas
Support 76.500 x 63.500 cm

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no language

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Artist: Schaak, J. S. C., fl. 1761-1769

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General note:

"Portrait of General James Wolfe directing operations at Quebec" (Caption title, Canadian History Hall).

Attributions and conjectures:

This painting is attributed to the artist J.S.C. Schaak.

Reproduction note:

A reproduction of this painting was made for Canadian History Hall, 2017.07.01.

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: The Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana Early Impressions of Quebec. Curators: Jim Burant, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2006.05.16 - 2006.09.05.

Further venue: Musée des Beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec; 2007.01.20 - 2007.03.18., Exhibition title: Canadian History Hall, Canadian Museum of History: 2017.07.01--

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: verso, on middle cross bar of stretcher, in ink: GENERAL WOLFE / DIRECTING THE OPERATIONS AT QUEBEC / J. S. SCHAAK / LOT 102 CHRISTIES 9 DEC. 1927 / FROM THE COLLECTION OF / CAPTAIN T. E. SOTHERON ESTCOURT.; on label glued down to stretcher, bottom centre, in ink: Epitaph on General Wolfe by David Garrick. / The Nations Glory is my Monument / Its ample Base the Western Continent / The Adamtine Pillars Publick Good / The Epitaph is written in my Blood. / DG / The original given me by Mr. Rowley [?] / in Mrs. Sotheron's Album. JBBE [?] 1835.; on label, torn off, formerly on frame, bottom: F

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Item no. assigned by LAC [R7025] 1

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Copy negative [R7025] C-150181

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada
Copyright: Expired

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