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Watching for Deer, Hollow Lake

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Date:

ca. 1862

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

2894547

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

Watching for Deer, Hollow Lake
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Date(s):

ca. 1862

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil with gum arabic on laid paper, laid down
Image 10.800 x 33.100 cm
Secondary support 14.200 x 33.600 cm

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Subject depicts a hunter seated on the shore of Hollow Lake. The hunter holds a gun in his right hand and looks out at the viewer. In front of him is a canoe. In the background trees are visible along the far shore., Hollow Lake has since changed its name to Kawagama Lake., The verso of the secondary support has three pencil sketches of canoes. Two of the canoes have two people paddling.

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Artist: Martin, Thomas Mower, 1838-1934

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Alpha-numeric note:

Sotheby's inventory no. W209.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: in pencil, recto, l.l. on image: Watching for Deer. Hollow Lake; in pen and black ink, recto, u.l.: Tom Salmon and my canoe; in pencil, recto, u.l.: Hollow Lake; in ink, recto, u.c. (in later hand): 1862 - 3 (THE ARTIST'S GUIDE WHEN HE WAS HOMESTEADING IN MUSKOKA)
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Ontario

Hunting
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Private

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00310
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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] 310

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-310 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: Expired

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