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Ships locked in ice, wintering in Barrow Strait 1850-51

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Date:

1850-1851

Reference:

R11235-2-4-E, Volume number: 1

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Item ID number:

3025945

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George Frederick McDougall collection

Ships locked in ice, wintering in Barrow Strait 1850-51
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Date(s):

1850-1851

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : pencil, pen and ink with grey wash and scraping out on wove paper
Support 17.200 x 27.000 cm
Platemark 31.500 x 40.500 cm

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All (9 ?) vessels locked in ice; tent pitched l.l. foreground with British flag, and longboat beside; another boat c.r. foreground; men rolling barrels; men pulling on sled and barrels mid-ground., Media note: grey wash ground; not inscribed., Received framed under glass with mat in gold painted wood frame., On backing board and on labels on backing board Christie's auction labels with lot information and date: Lot 137/2 and Lot 137/1[encircled] 2 [sic] [sic] and date 23-9-04., May have been previously unframed.

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Artist: McDougall, George Frederick ca. 1825-1871

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Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: Northwest Passage. Curators: Karen Ryan, Ph.D, Canadian Museum of Civilization / PMO Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario; 2013.03.11 - 2013.09.16

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed.
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Arctic

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Discovery and exploration

Second Franklin Search Expedition
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Private

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2004 DAP
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Graphic (art)

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Physical access through an art archivist. No restriction on use for reproduction or publication

Volume [R11235]

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1 Item no. assigned by LAC 2

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada (Accession No. R11235-2)
Copyright: Expired

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