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Stranded Whale, Tracadie Harbour PEI

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Date:

August, 1857

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2838216

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

Stranded Whale, Tracadie Harbour PEI
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Date(s):

August, 1857

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour over pencil on wove paper
Support 12.000 x 25.900 cm

Language of material:

no language

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Confederation Art Center of PEI own a watercolour of this subject, which they at one time attributed to Charles L. Daly (1808-64) of Toronto, who visited Sir Dominick in 1856. Maybe the whole family sketched the whale event., Subject depicts landscape with sandy shoreline in foreground, body of water midground and bluffs (?) on horizon, many figures on shoreline, sail ship with red flag at c.r.

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Artist: Daly, Caroline Louisa 1832-1893

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Alpha-numeric note:

Sotheby's inventory no. W96.7.

Note on the state of conservation:

Condition: u.l. corner missing and area near it is stained.

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: The Peter Winkworth Collections of Canadiana: Rocky Shores and Stormy Seas- The Atlantic Region. Curator: Jim Burant. Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2006.03.05-04.22.2007.

Further Venue: Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; 2006.03.05-2006.05.14.

Further Venue: The Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick; 2006.06.16-2006.09.03.

Further Venue: The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's Newfoundland; 2007.02.02-2007.04.22., Exhibition Title: Introducing Caroline Louisa Daly. Curator: Paige Matthie. Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; 2017.01.14 - 2017.05.07.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: brush point, recto b.: Stranded Whale - Tracadie Harbour Prince Ed. Island - August - 1857 - C.L. Daly
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Prince Edward Island

landscape
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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00163
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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] 163

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada / Acc. No. R9266-163, Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: Expired

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