Unidentified Indigenous person Archives / Collections and Fonds

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Unidentified Indigenous person

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Context of this record:

Henry Byam Martin collection

Unidentified Indigenous person
Record information
1
Unidentified Indigenous person

Date:

ca. 1832

Reference:

Accession number: 1981-042 PIC, 00014, Box number: A132-01

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2839189

Date(s):

ca. 1832

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil with pen and brown ink outlines on light brown paper
Support 15.200 x 8.300 cm

Language of material:

no language

Scope and content:

See the exhibition catalogue, "Friendly Spies on the Northern Tour..." (Ottawa, National Archives of Can, 1981) for further information on Martin., Watercolours and drawings recording Henry Byam Martin's sojourn in North America from September 1832 to June 1833. He landed in New York, travelled via the Hudson River and Erie Canal to Niagara Falls, then proceeded to Toronto, Kingston, Montréal, Ottawa, and Québec City. From Québec he returned to New York, and then travelled to Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Charleston, South Carolina, Alabama and then to New Orleans. He returned up the Mississippi River via Memphis, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh to Philadelphia and then embarked at New York to return to England., Many important subjects, including methods of transport, the slave trade and the Southern Secessionist Convention in 1833 are included in the watercolours. The collection also important for its depiction of costumes, particularly American and for its commentary on the American manners and customs., Originally mounted on folio 5 verso (bottom) in the Henry Byam Martin Album. Corner of watercolour torn when removed from folio and is still attached to folio 5 verso bottom.

Additional name(s):

Artist: Martin, Henry Byam, Sir, 1803-1865

Additional information:

General note:

Removed from: Album: an album of drawings taken during a trip through Canada and the United States, 1832-1833

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed., Inscription: Inscribed recto: in pencil, u.r. cropped inscription illegible; l.r. "Indian U.C.".

Subject heading:

Portraits

Aboriginal

SUBJ. - Portrait : Aboriginal - Depicting An Unidentified Indian - ca. 1932

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

1981-042 PIC

Other accession no.:

1981-042 PIC
00014
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation 90 Open]
nil

Box [1981-042]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A132-01 Item no. assigned by LAC 14

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1981-042]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-100169 Item no. assigned by LAC 14

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1981-42-14R Source: Dr. Nigel Davies, Gelati, Mexico.
Copyright: Expired

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