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De l'activité à Cut-Knife Creek

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Date:

2 mai 1885

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2898778

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

De l'activité à Cut-Knife Creek
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Date(s):

2 mai 1885

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 aquarelle : aquarelle sur crayon sur papier vélin
Image 17.000 x 25.500 cm
Secondary support 23.200 x 30.500 cm

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no language

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Depiction of the battle of Cut Knife Creek , Saskatchewan on May 2, 1885, at 12:30 p.m. In the foreground are three men, with two tending the cannon. The third man has his back to the viewer and appears to be looking through binoculars at the battle. In the middle ground, soldiers are walking through the brush toward the lower right of the scene. Several soldiers are visible on the hill., Sotheby's invenotry no. W500., Item is attached to a secondary support, which is hinged to a window mat. On the back of the secondary support are three newspaper clippings and part of a photograph. On clipping refers to the funeral of Miss Wadmore. Another clipping is a poem entitled After Death. The third clipping refers to an endowment to a hospital by the children of Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Wadmore. The partial photograph is a black and white image of two graves. The inscription on one grave is readable and someone wrote a caption under the image on the secondary support. The inscription reads: Grave of Captain Hebden / Essex Regt. / South Africa died 1900

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Artist: Wadmore, Robinson Lyndhurst, 1855-1915

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La Rébellion du Nord-Ouest (ou la Résistance du Nord-Ouest) était une insurrection de cinq mois contre le gouvernement canadien, a combattu principalement par les Métis et leurs alliés des Premières Nations.
La bataille de Cut Knife est survenue le 2 mai 1885. Elle s'est produite alors d'un petit groupe de Cris et d'Assiniboine a été attaqué à la colline de Cut Knife par des troupes composées de la Police montée du Nord-Ouest (cavalerie), batterie « B», compagnie « C», de l'infanterie, Queen's Own Rifles of Canada et les Battleford Rifles dirigés par le lieutenant-colonel WD Otter. Les Cris et les Assiniboines ont défait les forces canadiennes, avec des pertes des deux côtés.

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transparent couleur disponible

Exhibitions note:

Titre d'exposition: La collection Peter Winkworth d'oeuvres canadiennes - Un nouveau territoire à perte de vue - Le Nord-Ouest canadien. Conservateur : Jim Burant, Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2006.11.25-2007.08.29.

Lieu de présentation supplémentaire : Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba; 2006.11.25-2007.01.21.

Lieu de présentation supplémentaire : Red Deer and District Museum, Red Deer, Alberta; 2007.02.17 - 2007.04.15.

Lieu de présentation supplémentaire : Le Centre du Partimoine de La GRC, Regina, Saskatchewan; 2007.06.30-2007.08.29.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: avec la pointe du pinceau, recto, b.d. sur l'image: RL WADMORE.; recto, à l'encre sur support secondaire en-dessous de l'image: Action & retrievement Cuk Knife Hill / May 2. 1885 12.30 p m.; à l'encre, recto, c et b.c. sur cadre (n'est plus encadré), dans la même chemise: "ACTION AT CUT-KNIFE CREEK" / NORTH-WEST CANADA / 1885 / SKETCHED ON THE SCENE BY / LIEUT. R.L. WADMORE, ROYAL SCHOOL OF INFANTRY / (LATER COLONEL, ROYAL CANADIAN REGIMENT
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Saskatchewan

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Private

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00398
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Aucune restriction sur l'accès physique ni sur l'utilisation pour publication.

Item no. assigned by LAC [R9266] 398

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00398] C-150394

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Crédit: Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, no d'acc R9266-398 Collection de Canadiana Peter Winkworth
Droit d'auteur: Expiré

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