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White Fall

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Item

Date:

1-2 October 1819.

Reference:

Box number: BK-004

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2837996

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George Back fonds

Franklin Expedition to the Canadian Arctic Sketchbooks by George Back

George Back's sketchbook

White Fall
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Date(s):

1-2 October 1819.

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Place:

Present-day Manitoba:

Place of creation:

Manitoba

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour on wove paper
Support x cm

Language of material:

English

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Watercolour of the portage at White Fall, near the end of the Hayes River and the start of the Echimamish River.

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Artist: Back, George, Sir, 1796-1878

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Physical description note:

This item consists of two pages (folio 37 verso and 38 recto) of a bound sketchbook, which can also be accessed in cover-to-cover form.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency of the items before conservation is of folio 38 recto and part of folio 37 verso (C-141426). These pages have also been copied as C-141572; C-145912 -- C-145914.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in pen and brown ink, t. of folio 38 recto: "White Fall"; t. of folio 37 verso: "Rocks grey with light green. Tint of Red ochre and Gumboge / Rocks to the right, a tint of lake Trees do Bright tints Much / foam and spray about the water farther to the right - / Octobr 1819 GB"; (Complete transcription)

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Manitoba

Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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1994-254 DAP
00001.37V
00001.38R
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access under supervision of art archivist

Box [1994-254]

[Consultation 90 Open]

BK-004 Item no. assigned by LAC 1.37V AND 1.38R

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1994-254]

[Consultation 0 ]

C-141425--C-141426;

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C-141572;

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C-145912--C-145914;

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1994-254-1.37V and 1.38R. Acquired with the assistance of Hoechst and Celanese Canada and with a grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage under the Cultural Property Export and Import Act
Copyright: Expired

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