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Southeast view of Great Slave Lake from Fort Providence

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

30 November 1820.

Reference:

Box number: BK-004

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2963379

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George Back fonds

Franklin Expedition to the Canadian Arctic Sketchbooks by George Back

George Back's sketchbook

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

30 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 southeast view of Great Slave Lake from Old Fort Providence. Sketched in winter of 1821 just before Back received word that the lake was frozen over and could be safely traversed on his way back to Fort Chipewyan for additional supplies.

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Artist: Back, George, Sir, 1796-1878

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Physical description note:

This item is one page (folio 44 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 43 verso and 44 recto (C-141437 and C-141438). This page has also been copied as C-145931 -- C-145932.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Dated., Inscription: in pen and brown ink, t.: "Great Slave Lake"; in black brushpoint, b.: "S E View Novem 30 1820"; (Complete transcription)
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Northwest Territories

Territoires du Nord-Ouest
Source:

Private

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1994-254 DAP
00001.44R
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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 1.44R

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1994-254]

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C-141438;

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C-145931--C-145932;

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1994-254-1.44R. 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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