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Canoe Party around Campfire / Groupe de voyageurs autour d'un feu de camp

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Date:

ca. 1870

Reference:

Box number: OP-0096

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2894478

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Frances Anne Hopkins fonds

Canoe Party around Campfire / Groupe de voyageurs autour d'un feu de camp
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

ca. 1870

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Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 painting : oil on canvas ; 90.2 x 151.8 cm.
Support 90.200 x 151.800 cm
Image 90.200 x 151.800 cm

Language of material:

no language

Scope and content:

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This painting has been overpainted, thereby removing a number of details from the image. See negative C-134842.

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Artist: Hopkins, Frances Anne, 1836-1919

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General note:

Voyageurs were generally contracted employees who worked as canoe paddlers, bundle carriers, and general laborers for fur trading firms. They were also known as engagés, or employees. The voyageurs were French-Canadian, Métis, English, First Nations and German.
"Canoe party around a campfire" (Caption title, Canadian History Hall).

Custodial history:

This painting, as well as three others, were acquired by Anderson Galleries, New York, from the estate of Frances Anne Hopkins; thereafter they were purchased by Canadian publisher Robert Brook of Glasgow, Brook & Co., and then sold to the Public Archives for the same price for which Mr. Brook had purchased them.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available.

Reproduction note:

A reproduction of this painting was made for Canadian History Hall, 2017.07.01--

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: Canadian Folk Song and Handicraft Festival (?). Curators: National Gallery of Canada, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.

Further venue: Chateau Frontenac, Québec, Quebec; 1928.05.24 - 1928.05.28., Exhibition Title: Frances Anne Hopkins 1838-1919, Canadian Scenery. Curator: Janet Clark. Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario; 1990.01.29 - 1990.03.18.

Further Venue: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario; 1990.04.07 - 1990.05.27.

Further Venue: National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1990.08.31 - 1990.09.30.

Further Venue: Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta; 1990.10.20 - 1990.12.09., Exhibition title: Canoes in Canadian Art and Culture. Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta; 2017.05.08-2017.10.20.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed., Inscription: in brushpoint and red paint, recto, l.l.: FAH [monogram]

Container note(s):

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C-002772 : before conservation

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Canoe party around campfire, ca.1870
Subject heading:

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Ontario

work

SUBJ - CAMPING

Transportation - Water - Canoes
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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00004
1989-401 x DAP
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access to be given through an art archivist

Box [1989-401]

[Consultation 90 Open]

OP-0096 Item no. assigned by LAC 4

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1989-401]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-002772 Item no. assigned by LAC 4

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada / Acc. No. 1989-401-4 / e011180775
Copyright: Expired

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