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Sunset on Lake Huron from the encampment of Chief Yellow Head

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Date:

ca. 1837

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

2838123

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

Sunset on Lake Huron from the encampment of Chief Yellow Head
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Date(s):

ca. 1837

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing : graphite heightened with white gouache on grey wove paper
Support 16.500 x 25.600 cm

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Subject depicts an Indian encampment along the shore of Lake Huron. Three tepees have been set up. One in the c.l. and two in the c. of the image. People are visible near the tents. Two canoes rest on the shore., Referred to in Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (Toronto, 1943 ed)., p. 258. "About sunset, we came to the hut of a fur-trader...It was on the shore of a beautiful channel running between the mainland and a large island. On a neighbouring point, Wai, sow, win, de, bay (the Yellow-head) and his people were building their wigwams for the night. The appearance was most picutresque...", Preservation copy photographs, both b&w and colour transparency, are held in the Loans and Exhibitions area of Preservation Branch.

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Artist: Jameson, Mrs. (Anna,), 1794-1860

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Alpha-numeric note:

Sotheby's inventory no. W335

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: The Peter Winkworth Collections of Canadiana: Loyal She Remains- Ontario. Curator: Jim Burant, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2005.09.17 -2006.10.22.

Further Venue: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario; 2005.09.17- 2005.11.27.

Further Venue: Art Gallery of Windor, Windsor, Ontario; 2006.02.11-2006.03.26.

Further Venue: Museum London, London, Ontario; 2006.08.19-2006.10.22., Exhibition title: Marks of Chief Tainship. Curators: Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, M'Chigeeng, Ontario; 2011.08.02 - 2012.10.02.

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Inscription: in pencil, recto, l.l.: Anna Jameson; in pencil, verso, c.: 7 / Sunset on Lake Huron - / the night encampment of the / chief Yellow Head
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Ontario

Native

Architecture
Source:

Private

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00292
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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] 292

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00292] C-150389

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-292 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: Expired

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