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Petit Portage on the Embarras River

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Item

Date:

13 February 1821.

Reference:

Box number: BK-004

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2963380

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George Back fonds

Franklin Expedition to the Canadian Arctic Sketchbooks by George Back

George Back's sketchbook

Petit Portage on the Embarras River
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Date(s):

13 February 1821.

Place:

Present-day Alberta:

Place of creation:

Alberta

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour on wove paper
Support x cm

Language of material:

English

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Watercolour of a small portage on the Embarras River in wintertime, sketched during Back's return trip to Fort Enterprise after being dispatched back to Fort Chipewyan for supplies in winter of 1821.

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Artist: Back, George, Sir, 1796-1878

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Physical description note:

This item consists of two pages (folio 44 verso and 45 recto) of a bound sketchbook, which can also be accessed in cover-to-cover form.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency of the item before conservation is of the double page spread folio 44 verso and 45 recto (C-141439 and C-141440). These pages have also been copied as C-141575; C-145933 -- C-145935.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Dated., Inscription: in pen and brown ink, t.: "View of the fall at Petite Portage Riviere Embarras / Slave River February 13th 1821- Sky to the right - light grey / with Lake - decreasing in tone to the left - with light / yellow and Red tints - Snow on the Trees - Water green / ish muddy colour- (Dogs and Trains passing)" (Complete transcription)

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Alberta

Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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1994-254 DAP
00001.44V
00001.45R
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access under supervision of art archivist

Box [1994-254]

[Consultation 90 Open]

BK-004 Item no. assigned by LAC 1.44V AND 1.45R

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1994-254]

[Consultation 0 ]

C-141439--C-141440;

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C-141575;

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C-145933--C-145935;

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1994-254-1.44V and 1.45R. Acquired with the assistance of Hoechst and Celanese Canada and with a grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage under the Cultural Property Export and Import Act
Copyright: Expired

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