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The Field Hotel below Mount Stephen

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Item

Date:

ca. 1887

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2838035

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

The Field Hotel below Mount Stephen
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Date(s):

ca. 1887

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Place of creation:

British Columbia

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour with gouache, pen and ink on wove paper
Support 41.400 x 34.300 cm

Language of material:

no language

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Work entitled Field Hotel and Mount Stephen, Kicking Horse Valley, in the Rockies, by Edward Roper.

Subject depicts a landscape with a stream, a train station, train and mountains. There is a train approaching from the left; numerous figures are around the station. The purple mountain in the background is dominating and appears to be capped with snow.

A reproduction after this work appears in Edward Roper,s By Track and Trail: A Journey Through Canada (London, 1891), p. 137, The support of this watercolour is still attached to part of a frame on the top and right margins.

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Artist: Roper, Edward, 1833-1909

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Alpha-numeric note:

Sotheby's inventory no. W250

Custodial history:

Family descent; Sotheby's Belgravia, London, 7 Dec. 1971, lot 61; Christies London, 8 Nov. 1974, lot 139; Peter Winkworth.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed., Inscription: in brushpoint, recto, l.r.: ERoper; in pencil, u.l.: Mount Stephen; in ink, verso: No. 57 (partial transcription)
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British Columbia

Architecture
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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00350
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
No restriction on access or on use for publication or reproduction.

Item no. assigned by LAC [R9266] 350

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00350] C-150150

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-350 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: expired

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