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The Mail Carried Across Lake Huron from Penetanguishene to Sault Ste-Marie

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Item

Date:

March 1853

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2838475

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

The Mail Carried Across Lake Huron from Penetanguishene to Sault Ste-Marie
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Date(s):

March 1853

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour : pencil, watercolour and gouache on wove paper
Support 21.600 x 28.500 cm
Secondary support 34.200 x 41.500 cm

Language of material:

no language

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Image depicting two Mohawks on snowshoes; one is carrying a brown sack over his shoulder while the other pulls a sled with packages on it. They are accompanied by two dogs who, shod in small booties, are themselves lugging a heavily packed sled., Item is slightly dirty due to the matting which left a part of the work exposed while the other part was shielded., Preservation copy photographs, both b&w and colour transparency, are held in the Loans and Exhibitions area of Preservation Branch.

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Artist: Wilkinson, Berdoe Amherst. 1827-1895

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Alpha-numeric note:

Sotheby's inventory no. W242

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: The Peter Winkworth Collections of Canadiana: Loyal She Remains- Ontario. Curator: Jim Burant, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2005.09.17 -2006.10.22.

Further Venue: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario; 2005.09.17- 2005.11.27.

Further Venue: Art Gallery of Windor, Windsor, Ontario; 2006.02.11-2006.03.26.

Further Venue: Museum London, London, Ontario; 2006.08.19-2006.10.22.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in brown watercolour, recto l.c.: . THE MAIL TRAIN . MOHAWKS / PENETANGUISHENE, MARCH 1853; l.l.: THE MAIL FOR "SAULTE DE STE MARIE" IS CARRIED ACROSS LAKE "HURON" ON THE ICE.; in brown ink, l.r.: B.A.W.; (partial transcription)
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Ontario

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Private

Other accession no.:

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00422
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
No restriction on access or on use for publication or reproduction.

Item no. assigned by LAC [R9266] 422

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00422] C-150505

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-422 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: expired

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