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Arrival of Christian at the Wicket

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Item (Accession level)

Date:

1875

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3026250

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James G. MacKay collection

Arrival of Christian at the Wicket
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Date(s):

1875

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing / dessin : pencil and black gall ink on wove paper
Support 20.200 x 12.700

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Image depicts Christian knocking at the gate and looking up into the window of a house. On the window ledge sits a man strumming a guitar.

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Artist: MacKay, James G, 1847-1885

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General note:

James MacKay Sketchbook

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Inscribed., Inscription: inscribed in black gall ink, t.: (12); l.l.: (Arrival of Christian at the Wicket) [underlined] / "So in the process of time Christian got up to the / "gate. He knocked therefore once or twice / "Saying, "May I now enter here, will he within open to" / "Sorry me, though I have been an underserving rebel. &" / "At last there came a grave person to the gate named Goodwill" /"who asked who was there; and whence he came? And what he would have."
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cartoon

allegory
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Private

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1988-033 PIC
88-007
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Credit: Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada (1988-33-1.18)
Copyright: Expired

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