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Frontispiece of "Canadian Wild Flowers"

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Date:

1869.

Reference:

Box number: A077-01--A077-02

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

2905461

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Traill family collection

Frontispiece of "Canadian Wild Flowers"
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Date(s):

1869.

Place:

St. Nicholas Street, Montréal (Québec):

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Publisher:

John Lovell,

Place of printing:

Chrome-Liths. and St. Nicholas Street, Montréal (Québec):

Extent:

1 print / estampe : hand coloured lithograph with stencil on laid paper
Support 37.800 x 28.400 cm

Language of material:

no language

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Each plate is part of a set with a 37.7 X 29.4 cm. paper wrapper or 39.7 X 30.5 cm. portfolio likely issued with the sets when they were sold. The paper wrapper is made of cream coloured paper, the inscription "CANADIAN/ WILD/ FLOWERS", circled with two flowering plants is a wood cut and engraving, in brown ink. The portfolio is made of two pieces of cardboard covered in dark blue papers imitating crushed Morocco leather. This cover bears the same inscription as the cream folder, "CANADIAN/ WILD/ FLOWERS" tooled in a blind tool circle of two flowering plants with a blind tooled border and black ties; interior covers are salmon coloured., Foxed, soiled, stain l.r. corner, creases on corners, The book from which these lithographs come has 86 pages and 10 plates.
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Artist: Chamberlin, Agnes D., 1833-1913

Engraver: Burland, Lafricain & Co

Publisher: Lovell, John, 1810-1893

Printer: Lovell, John, 1810-1893
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General note:

set: CANADIAN WILDFLOWERS, (Montréal: John Lovell, 1869)frontispiece

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: Field Studies. Curators: Barnes, Brian, Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Unionville, ON; 2005.03.03-2005.05.01.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Dated., Inscription: on the stone, recto, u.r.: 13713; c.: CANADIAN/ WILD FLOWERS./ Painted and lithographed/ BY/ AGNES FITZ GIBBON (sic)/ WITH/ BOTANICAL DESCRIPTIONS/ BY/ C.P. TRAILL./ AUTHORESS OF THE BACKWOODS OF CANADA "THE CANADIAN CRUSOES" E.T.C. E.T.C.; l.c.: Burland, Lafricain & Co/ Chromo-Liths Montreal.; b.: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY JOHN LOVELL, 1869. ST NICHOLAS STREET MONTREAL.

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A077-02 : Case and paper wrapper used in Canadian WIld Flower publication.
Subject heading:

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plante

SUBJ. - Plant : Canadian Wild Flowers

Plant
Source:

Private

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1974-020 PIC
00001
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation99 Closed pending processing]
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Box [1974-020] A077-01--A077-02

[Consultation 90 Open]

A077-01 Item no. assigned by LAC 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00001] C-148176

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1974-20-1 Transfer from Manuscript Division, Traill Family Papers (MG29 G62). Acquired from the Estate of Miss Anne Atwood by Manuscript Division.
Copyright: Expired

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