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Life in the Esquimaux Igloe Etah

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Date:

ca. 1856.

Reference:

R13133-200-4-E, Volume number: 12

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

2953399

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Canadian Historical Prints and Watercolours Collection

Life in the Esquimaux Igloe Etah
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Date(s):

ca. 1856.

Place:

Philadelphia:

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Publisher:

Childs & Peterson,

Extent:

1 print / estampe : engraving in line on steel ; 14 x 22 cm.

Language of material:

English

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Image depicts a group of Eskimo people sitting inside an igloe. On the left, a woman with a child beside her appears to be cooking something over a fire.
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Copyist (art): Schuessele, Christian (born 1824 or 1826, died 1879)

Artist: Kane, Elisha Kent, Dr

Engraver: McRae, J.C
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General note:

From a sketch by Dr. [E.K.] Kane. [Painted by] C. Schuessele. J. C. Mcrae [engraved by]
See CD for unverified location information.
Copy negative number: C-001047
Inventory number, E.K. Kane artist file: II-10
Publication: from E.K. Kane, "Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55" (Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1856), vol. 2, p. 113.

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: The Light that Fills the World. Curator: René Picard, Canadian Embassy Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.; 1989.09.19-1990.01.15

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Recto, l.l.: C. Schuessele ; l.r.: J.C. McRae. ; l.c.: Engraved at J.M. Butler's establishment 84 Chestnut St. / LIFE IN THE ESQUIMAUX IGLÖE / ETAH. / (From a sketch by Dr. Kane)
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Portraits

SUBJ - NATIVES, INUIT - COSTUMES

SUBJ - NATIVES, INUIT - ACTIVITIES

Inuit - Dwellings
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R13133]

[Consultation 90 Open]

12 Item no. assigned by LAC 190

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Copyright: expired
Credit: Library and Archives Canada, acc. no. R13133-190

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