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Homme Acadien

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Date:

[Paris]: 1788-1796.

Reference:

R13133-195-4-E, Volume number: 12

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2900892

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Canadian Historical Prints and Watercolours Collection

Prints of American Indians by J.G. de St. Sauveur

Homme Acadien
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

[Paris]: 1788-1796.

Place:

[Paris]:

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 print / estampe : hand-coloured etching on wove paper ; 20.4 x 15 cm (plate mark).
Support 24.100 x 17.500 cm
Image 14.500 x 11.500 cm
Platemark 20.000 x 14.900 cm

Language of material:

French

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An Acadian man with minimal clothing that covers only his gentalia, is holding a dead rabbit and a bird in his hand while carrying a long axe with his other hand. He is also carrying a quiver of arrows on his back. He has various tattoos (of the sun, serpents, crosses, etc) on his body.
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Artist: Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1810

Engraver: Laroque, J., fl. 1788-1796
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General note:

This print was probably published as part of the Encyclopedie des voyages (Paris, 1796-1804) where the source of many of the illustrations is the artist Saint-Sauveur.
Copy negative number: C-021112
Inventory number, St. Sauveur artist file: II-19

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Recto, l.l.: J.G. St. Sauveur inv. direx. ; l.r.: J. Laroque; l.c.: Homme Acadien
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Nova Scotia

Indian

Micmac Indians

Portraits

SUBJ - NATIVES, REGIONS - NOVA SCOTIA
Source:

Private
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
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Volume [R13133]

[Consultation 90 Open]

12 Item no. assigned by LAC 185

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, acc. no. R13133-185
Copyright: Expired

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