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Going to Fort Providence

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Item

Date:

27 October 1820.

Reference:

Box number: BK-004

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2837999

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George Back fonds

Franklin Expedition to the Canadian Arctic Sketchbooks by George Back

George Back's sketchbook

Going to Fort Providence
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Date(s):

27 October 1820.

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Place:

Present-day Northwest Territories:

Place of creation:

Northwest Territories

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour on wove paper
Support x cm

Language of material:

English

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Watercolour of Back's team as they ascend icy hills. The small team was dispatched in winter of 1821 by Franklin from Fort Enterprise to seek supplies at Fort Chipewyan. The other members of the team of eight are all depicted in this image by Back: Willard Wentzel, a North West Company clerk; Gabriel Beauparlant, a voyageur, likely Métis; Solomon Belanger, a voyageur, possibly Métis; Dene hunter Akaiyazzeh and his wife Little Forehead; and Dene hunter Thoolezzeh and his wife Smiling Marten. One of the women had a small child with her.

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Artist: Back, George, Sir, 1796-1878

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Physical description note:

This item is one page (folio 47 verso) of a bound sketchbook, which can also be accessed in cover-to-cover form.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available: C-141444; C-145942; C-145944

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: Overland to the Arctic with Franklin/En route vers l'arctique avec Sir John Franklin (reproductions/réproductions). Curators: Eva Major-Marothy, National Archives of Canada. Further venue: Montreal, Hoechst and Celanese HQ.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in pen and brown ink, b.: "Octor. 27th going to Fort Providence"; (Complete transcription)

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Northwest Territories

Source:

Private

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1994-254 DAP
00001.47V
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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 1.47V

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1994-254]

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C-141444;

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C-145942;

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C-145944;

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1994-254-1.47V. 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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