Homme de Nootka (1 digital object(s)) Archives / Collections and Fonds

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Homme de Nootka

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Item

Context of this record:

Canadian Historical Prints and Watercolours Collection

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

Homme de Nootka
Record information
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Homme de Nootka

Date:

c. 1795.

Reference:

R13133-190-5-E, Volume number: 12

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2937180

Date(s):

c. 1795.

Place:

[Paris]:

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 print / estampe : etching coloured by hand ; 21.2 x 15 cm (plate mark).
Support 25.800 x 18.600 cm
Image 14.500 x 10.500 cm
Platemark 21.000 x 14.900 cm

Scope and content:

Image is a full-length view of a standing Native American Nootka man, dressed in native costume and wearing an elaborate headdress. He stands with his hand on his hip, and holds a paddle in his right hand.

Additional name(s):

Artist: Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1810

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

Additional information:

General note:

Removed from: Publication: Possibly published in J. G. Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, "Encyclopédie des voyages..." (Paris, 1795), Volume 5
Copy negative number: C-070651
Inventory number, St. Sauveur artist file: II-9

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: Recto l.l.: J.L.G. St. Sauveur inv. dir; l.r.: J. Laroque scul; l.c.: Homme de Nootka.

Subject heading:

Nootka Indians

Indian

Portraits

SUBJ - NATIVES, REGIONS - BRITISH COLUMBIA

Costume

Traditional clothing

Source:

Private
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Graphic (art)

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Volume [R13133]

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12 Item no. assigned by LAC 180

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, acc. no. R13133-180
Copyright: Expired

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