Collection search - Sky study with extensive colour notation

This item is one page (folio 48 verso) of a bound sketchbook, which can also be accessed in cover-to-cover form.

Colour transparency of the item before conservation is of the double page spread, folio 48 verso and 49 recto (C-141446 and C-141447). This page has also been copied as C-145945 and C-145947.

Inscribed. Dated., Inscription: in pen and brown ink, t.: "The left side dark rich green with / patches of Snow - Pine and Willow & Poplar / - River Snow - Right side innumerable / hills half Snow & trees, Poplar indistinct / and willow / near the river some Pine - Top of hills / Trees Pine dark masses distance light / grey - Sky blue with horizontal light / clouds - time near Sun Set March / 13t 1820 right side of hills on the right / dark with Trees / Sun Set chipewyan / on the right between two fully horizon / tal grey clouds tipped with rich and / light yellow and Red ochre internal / light grey almost hidden by the tint / above - broken clouds almost horizon / tal - some a little vertical, grey with / light red tint - on the top yellow ocher / and vermilion - the left grey with / light tint of red gradually decreas / ing;" (Partial transcription)