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The Double Glacier, Buchanan Bay, Ellesmere Island

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Date:

4-5 August 1875

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Box number: A146-01/X1

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Art

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Item ID number:

2834001

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Thomas Mitchell fonds

The Double Glacier, Buchanan Bay, Ellesmere Island
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Date(s):

4-5 August 1875

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil with opaque white on wove paper
Support 22.000 x 34.200 cm

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no language

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Watercolour on folio 6 recto in album with 23 folios

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Artist: Mitchell, Thomas, 1833?-1924

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General note:

Removed from: Album.: Sketches made during the Voyage of the Discovery and Alert to the Polar Sea - 1875-6. Under the Command of Capt. Sir George S. Nares K.C.B. F.R.S. Sailed from Portsmouth 29 May 1875. Arrived Valentia (Ireland) 17 Oct. 1876.

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Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: The Light that Fills the World. Curators: Bill Bwing and Rene Picard, Canadian Embassy, Washington D.C.; 1989.09.18 - 1989.12.31, cat. no.: no. 41., Exhibition title: First Impressions: European View of the Natural History of Canada. Curators: Victoria Dickenson, Eva Major-Marothy, Agnes Etherington Art Centre; 1992.09.20-1992.11.22. Further venue: Leonard And Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia U.: 1993.01.07-1993.02.20., Further venue: Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon: 1993.05.07-1993.06.27., 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:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in pen and black ink, on album page [removed]: The Double Glacier. Buchanan Sound. Sketched from the "Discovery" / the "Alert" in shore landed a party to / walk to the Glacier. They were recalled by / a Gun. The glacier was 6 miles from the beach.
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Northwest Territories

landscape

SUBJ. - Landscape : Depicting View Of Double Glacier Buchanan Bay, Ellesmere Island, 1875

N.W.T. : Buchanan Bay, Ellesmere Islands, 1875

British Arctic Expedition (1875-1876)
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1936-259 PIC
00005
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
No restrictions on access or on use for reproduction or publication.

Box [1936-259]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A146-01/X1 Item no. assigned by LAC 5

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1936-259]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-027827 Item no. assigned by LAC 5

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1936-259-5
Copyright: Expired.

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