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Pitcher Plant, New Brunswick

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Date:

1865

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3017622

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

Aberdeen Album, "Foreign Sketches"

Pitcher Plant, New Brunswick
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Date(s):

1865

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil on wove paper, laid down
Image 25.500 x 35.500 cm
Secondary support 37.000 x 46.200 cm

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Sujbect depicts a detailed close-up of a pitcher plant or Sarracenia. The plant has cupped leaves that are brightly coloured with red veins. This plant grows between rocks and in bogs., Rachel Emily Shaw-Lefevre married Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon; she often signed her name Rachel Hamilton Gordon.

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Artist: Gordon, Rachel Emily Hamilton, d.1889

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General note:

album: Lady Aberdeen Album, "Foreign Sketches" folio 5.

Alpha-numeric note:

Sotheby's inventory no. W707

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: in brushpoint, recto of secondary support, l.c.: Pitcher Plant. New Brunswick.;in brushpoint, recto of secondary support, l.r.: R.H.Gordon. / 1865
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New Brunswick

plante

Plant
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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03899
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation99 Closed pending processing]
No restriction on access or on use for publication or reproduction.

Item no. assigned by LAC [R9266] 3899

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-3899 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: expired/périmé

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