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Title

Left to Die. 

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Arrangement structure

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Item (linked) part of

Frances Anne Hopkins fonds [graphic material] (R5666-0-8-E)

Bilingual equivalent

Abandonné à la mort

Date(s)

1872

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 painting / peinture : oil on canvas
Support: 152.400 x 86.400 cm (commercial board)
Image: 151.700 x 86.100 cm (canvas)
Platemark: 186.600 x 118.700 x 6.300 cm (original)
Inventory no.: 900434

Scope and content

A sole Plains Indian left to die on the prairies by his people. The work is listed in the London Royal Academy Exhibition Catalogue for 1872 as no.149.
The General Thomas J. Grant album in the photography collection (Acc.no. 1960-51) contains a photograph of this work showing a slightly different composition.
The shirt and leggings worn in this painting are copied from items which were formerly in the collection of the artist's husband, Edward Hopkins. The collection is now at Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)
90: Open
No restrictions on access or on use for
reproductions or publication.
Graphic (art)
Copy negative C-126820
90: Open
Graphic (art)
90: Open
Box
2000811871 Item no. assigned by LAC 1
90: Open
Other accession no.
1986-028 PIC
00001

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1986-28-1 This acquisition was made possible by a contribution from the Government of Canada under the terms of the Cultural Property and Import Act.
Copyright: Expired.

Additional name(s)

Artist: Hopkins, Frances Anne, 1836-1919.

Additional information

Availability of other formats note
Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note
Exhibition title: A Place in History. Curators: Art Section, Documentary Art and Photography Division, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1990.10.31-1991.03.31.
Exhibition Title: The Peter Winkworth Collections of Canadiana: Vast New Lands- Canada's Northwest. Curator: Jim Burant, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2006.11.25 -2007.08.29. Further Venue: Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba; 2006.11.25-2007.01.21. Further Venue: Red Deer and District Museum, Red Deer, Alberta; 2007.02.17 - 2007.04.15. Further Venue: RCMP Heritage Centre, Regina, Saskatchewan; 2007.06.30-2007.08.29.

Signatures and inscriptions
Inscribed. Signed. Dated.
Inscription: in brushpoint and brown oil, recto l.l.: FAH [in monogram] / 1872
Inscription: (complete)

Subject heading

1. costume.
2. Indian.
3. SUBJ - NATIVES, CULTURE - ACTIVITIES, WARFARE.
4. SUBJ - NATIVES, CULTURE - COSTUMES.
5. SUBJ - NATIVES, CULTURE - EQUIPMENT.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

ICON5515

MIKAN no.

2834247