Collection search - Owl Lake, Ellesmere Island

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Owl Lake, Ellesmere Island

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Date:

ca. July 1876

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Box number: A146-01/X1

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Art

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Item ID number:

2834015

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Thomas Mitchell fonds

Owl Lake, Ellesmere Island
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Date(s):

ca. July 1876

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Place of creation:

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Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil with opaque white; figures touched with gum arabic on wove paper
Support 25.000 x 35.200 cm

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Watercolour on folio 20 recto in album with 23 folios

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Artist: Mitchell, Thomas, 1833?-1924

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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) 27 Oct. 1876.

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Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in pen and black ink, recto l.l. on album page [removed]: Here we shot numbers of / Brent Geese who were moulting. / and could not fly - they swam about / between the floating ice & the margin of the lake,; b.: Owl Lake- United States Range [ink arrow upwards] / where Conybear & I shot the two / most northern Musk Oxen during the Expedition -; l.r.: [ink arrow upwards] We rescued the young of the Snowy Owls nest / which we found on this point-; in pencil, recto l.r.: Owl Lake.; in pencil, verso c.: Owl Lake - 128 Miles from Alerts Winter Quarters
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Northwest Territories

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N.W.T. : Owl Lake - Ellesmere Island, 1876

British Arctic Expedition (1875-1876)
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1936-259 PIC
00019
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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 19

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1936-259]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-027822 Item no. assigned by LAC 19

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1936-259-19
Copyright: Expired.

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