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Map of St. Clair River from Fort Gratiot at mouth of Lake Huron to Fort Baby at head of Lake St. Clair

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Date:

June 25, 1821

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Art

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Item ID number:

3028523

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John Jeremiah Bigsby fonds

Map of St. Clair River from Fort Gratiot at mouth of Lake Huron to Fort Baby at head of Lake St. Clair
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

June 25, 1821

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 Drawing : Pen and ink and pencil with watercolour on tissue paper, waxed
Support 10.500 x 36.900 cm

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The image is from a grangerized volume of Bigsby's 1850 publication The Shoe and Canoe, to which Bigsby added or inserted drawings, maps, and prints as well as many annotations.

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Artist: Bigsby, John J. (John Jeremiah), 1792-1881

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General note:

Removed from: Publication: In Bigsby, John J., "The shoe and canoe, or, Pictures of travel in the Canadas..., London: Chapman and Hall, 1850, vol. 1, glued down to verso of folio inserted between pp. 294-295

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: Inscribed, verso, in ink: Relford Feb. 3. 1823; recto, below image: Map of St. Clair River; Bar. 2.45' E, June 25, 1821; at extreme left of image: Fort Gratiot at mouth of Lake Huron; at extreme right of image: Fort Baby at Head of Lake St. Clair.
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Ontario
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Private

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1939-447 PIC
00029
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Material must be examined under the supervision of an art archivist. No restrictions on reproduction or publication.

Item no. assigned by LAC [00039] 39

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1939-447-29
Copyright: Expired

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