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Fogbow

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Item

Date:

February 1820.

Reference:

Box number: BK-004

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2963360

Context of this record:

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George Back fonds

Franklin Expedition to the Canadian Arctic Sketchbooks by George Back

George Back's sketchbook

Fogbow
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Record information – Details

Date(s):

February 1820.

Place:

Present-day Saskatchewan:

Place of creation:

Saskatchewan

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour on wove paper
Support x cm

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Watercolour of a fogbow over a snowy landscape, likely near Carlton House. There is an inscription at the bottom of this page that pertains to the image on folio 39 recto.

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Artist: Back, George, Sir, 1796-1878

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Physical description note:

This item is one page (folio 38 verso) of a bound sketchbook, which can also be accessed in cover-to-cover form.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency of the item before conservation is of the double page spread, folio 38 verso and 39 recto (C-141427 and C-141428). This page has also been copied as C-141573; C-145915; C-145917.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in black brushpoint, t.: "Fogbow"; in pen and brown ink, b. [this inscription belongs to the image on the following page]: "Carlton House from the Eastwd in the Plain; in black brushpoint: Feby 7th 1820 G B"; (Complete transcription)

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Saskatchewan

Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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1994-254 DAP
00001.38V
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access under supervision of art archivist

Box [1994-254]

[Consultation 90 Open]

BK-004 Item no. assigned by LAC 1.38V

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1994-254]

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C-141427;

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C-141573;

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C-145915;

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C-145917;

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1994-254-1.38V. Acquired with the assistance of Hoechst and Celanese Canada and with a grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage under the Cultural Property Export and Import Act
Copyright: Expired

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