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Canada Porcupine

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Item

Date:

ca. 1849.

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3025613

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

Canada Porcupine
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

ca. 1849.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Place of printing:

Philadelphia

Extent:

1 print / estampe : hand coloured lithograph on wove paper
Support 25.800 x 17.000 cm
Image 18.300 x 12.800 cm

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The edges are gold leafed, except for the left edge cut out from binding.
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Artist: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851

Engraver: Bowen, John T., approximately 1801-1856?

Printer: Bowen, John T., approximately 1801-1856?
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General note:

Removed from: publication: J.J. Audubon and J. Bachman, The Quadrupeds of North America (New York: V.G. Audubon, 1849)

Alpha-numeric note:

Sotheby's inventory no. P367A

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed., Inscription: on recto, in print, u.l.:No. 8.; u.r.:Plate XXXVI.; b.:Canada Porcupine.; l.l.:Drawn from Nature by J.J.Audubon,FRS.F.L.S.; l.r.:Lithd.,Printed & Cold. by J.T. Bowen, Philada. (complete transcription)

Subject heading:

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animal

Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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00635
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
No restrictions on access for use in publication or reproduction

Item no. assigned by LAC [R9266] 635

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada / Bibilothèque et Archives Canada (R9266-635) Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: expired/périmé

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