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Northeast view of Great Slave Lake from Fort Providence

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

10 November 1820.

Reference:

Box number: BK-004

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2963371

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George Back fonds

Franklin Expedition to the Canadian Arctic Sketchbooks by George Back

George Back's sketchbook

Northeast view of Great Slave Lake from Fort Providence
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

10 November 1820.

Place:

Old Fort Providence, present-day Northwest Territories:

Place of creation:

Northwest Territories

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour on wove paper
Support x cm

Language of material:

English

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Watercolour of the northeast view of Great Slave Lake from Old Fort Providence. There is a man in snowshoes with several dogs in the foreground.

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Artist: Back, George, Sir, 1796-1878

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Physical description note:

This item is one page (folio 41 recto) 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 40 verso and 41 recto (C-141431 and C-141432). This page has also been copied as C-145922 -- C-145923.

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: Overland to the Arctic with Franklin/En route vers l'arctique avec Sir John Franklin (reproductions/réproductions). Curators: Eva Major-Marothy, National Archives of Canada. Further venue: Montreal, Hoechst and Celanese HQ.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in black brushpoint, b.: "NE View of Great Slave Lake Novem 10th 1820 GB"; (Complete transcription)
Subject heading:

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Northwest Territories

Territoires du Nord-Ouest
Source:

Private

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1994-254 DAP
00001.41R
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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 1.41R

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1994-254]

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C-141432;

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C-145922--C-145923;

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1994-254-1.41R. Acquired with the assistance of Hoechst and Celanese Canada and with a grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage under the Cultural Property and Import Act.
Copyright: Expired

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