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St. Boniface, Red River Settlement

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Item

Date:

1858

Reference:

R16889-35-2-E, Volume number: 1

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2836247

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George Seton Fonds

St. Boniface, Red River Settlement
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Date(s):

1858

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour and pen and brown ink over pencil on wove paper
Support 8.500 x cm
Image 8.500 x 18.200 cm
Secondary support 15.800 x 24.400 cm

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Watercolour mounted on p. 20 of sketchbook, The Seton sketchbook is both a sketchbook and an album. The drawings on the pages are numbered 1950-63-1.1 to 1.19. The other items are glued onto pages. These are numbered 1950-63-2 to 9.

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Artist: Napier, William Henry Edward, 1829-1894

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General note:

sketchbook: "Sketches by Major Seton", folio 10 verso, glued to the page. This sketchbook was paginated by the artist. This is page: 20.
The former city of Saint-Boniface founded in 1818 by Bishop Provencher, is the capital of French Manitoba. It is the historical centre of the French-Canadian and Métis communities in Western Canada.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: 150 Years of Art in Manitoba. Curators: Ferdinand Eckhart, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba; 1970.05.01 - 1970.08.31, cat. no.: no. 146.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in pen and brown ink, recto, under the image, on the album page, b.: St. Boniface. R.C. cathedral - Red River Settlement. / Drawn by W. Napier - 1858. [since burnt down in 1860- / It was built by the Right Revd Joseph Norbert Provencher, 1st R.C. Bishop of Red River - He first / came to the settlement in 1818; u.l.: 20.; (Complete transcription)

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St. Boniface, R.C. Cathedral - Red River Settlement
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St. Boniface (Winnipeg, Man.)

Manitoba

cityscape

vue de ville
Source:

Private

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1950-063 PIC
00007
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access restricted. No restrictions on use for reproduction or publication

Volume [R16889]

[Consultation 90 Open]

1 Item no. assigned by LAC 7

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00007]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-001065;

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-150096;

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1950-63-7 (R16889-7)
Copyright: Expired

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