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Guerrier Iroquois

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Date:

ca. 1795.

Reference:

R13133-188-7-E, Volume number: 12

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2837286

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Canadian Historical Prints and Watercolours Collection

Prints of American Indians by J.G. de St. Sauveur

Guerrier Iroquois
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

ca. 1795.

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Place:

[Paris]:

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 print / estampe : etching with aquatint, handcoloured with watercolour and gold metallic paint on light blue laid paper laid down onto cardboard 24 x 17.5 cm.
Support 22.900 x 16.100 cm
Image 15.600 x 10.900 cm

Language of material:

French

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Image a full-length view of a standing Iroquois warrior in native costume. He is carrying a tall musket, an axe, and a smoking hawk (an instrument that is both pipe and tomahawk). Around his neck he wears a chain with a blade dangling blade.
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Artist: Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1810

Engraver: Laroque, J., fl. 1788-1796
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General note:

Removed from: Publication: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, "Encyclopedia des voyages...", (Paris, 1795?)
Copy negative number: C-003163
Inventory number, Saint-Sauveur artist file: II-11

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed., Inscription: in the plate, l.l., within image: J. Grasset S[^t]. Sauveur inv. direx; l.r.: J. Laroque Sculp; b., outside image: Guerrier Iroquois (complete transcription)
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Iroquois Indians

Indian

Portraits

Costume
Source:

Private
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access through an art archivist. No restriction on use for reproduction or publication

Volume [R13133]

[Consultation 90 Open]

12 Item no. assigned by LAC 178

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, acc. no. R13133-178
Copyright: Expired

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