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Sporting Anecdotes - A Real Scene in Montreal

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Item

Date:

ca. 1837.

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3025573

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

Sporting Anecdotes - A Real Scene in Montreal
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Date(s):

ca. 1837.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Place of printing:

London (England):

Extent:

1 print / estampe : coloured aquatint on wove paper
Support 39.500 x 49.500 cm
Image 21.500 x 33.400 cm
Platemark 27.900 x 38.100 cm

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The illustration is about an event described in the paragraph written below the image. Morris, the mounted hunter in the centre, is confronted by armed villagers who are unwilling to let him cross through their property., For other copies of this print, please see R9266-3539 to R9266-3543.

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Artist: Alken, Henry 1785-1851

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publication ?

Alpha-numeric note:

Sotheby's inventory no. P3538

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed., Inscription: in the plate, recto t.:Sporting Anecdotes./A real scene in Montreal,_Meltonicé, A STOPPER.; u.r.:PLATE 15.; l.r.:H.Alken./delt. et sculp.; b.:LONDON: PUBLISHED AT 31, ELY PLACE. E. C./"Set Morris on York, and what will stop them?" Mungo, for a hundred/[untranscribed paragraph]. From an Article on Fox-hunting in Canada, in the New Sporting Magazine. (partial transcription)
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Hunting

Chasse
Source:

Private

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03538
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Graphic (art)

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Item no. assigned by LAC [R9266] 3538

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada / Bibilothèque et Archives Canada (R9266-3538) Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: expired/périmé

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