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Two leaves of a Pitcher Plant

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Date:

1866

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3017627

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

Aberdeen Album, "Foreign Sketches"

Two leaves of a Pitcher Plant
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Date(s):

1866

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil on wove paper, laid down
Image 18.900 x 20.100 cm
Secondary support 46.200 x 37.000 cm

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Subject depicts a study of two leaves of a Pitcher Plant or Sarracenia. The two leaves are cupped, with pointed tips and coloured by red veins. There is an unfinished leaf in the lower margin., Rachel Emily Shaw-Lefevre married Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon; she often signed her name Rachel Hamilton Gordon.

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Artist: Gordon, Rachel Emily Hamilton, d.1889

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General note:

album: Lady Aberdeen Album, "Foreign Sketches" folio 7.

Alpha-numeric note:

Sotheby's inventory no. W707

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: transcription noted in R9266-3901 for all items on page: in pencil, recto of secondary support, Pitcher Plant. New Brunswick. 1866.
Subject heading:

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plante

Plant
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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03902
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation99 Closed pending processing]
No restriction on access or on use for publication or reproduction.

Item no. assigned by LAC [R9266] 3902

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-3902 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: expired / périmé

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