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Title

Petit Vimy and Vimy Village from the Lens - Arras Road. 

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Item (linked) part of

Mary Riter Hamilton fonds [graphic material] (R5966-0-5-E)

Bilingual equivalent

Petit Vimy et le village de Vimy vus de la route entre Lens et Arras

Date(s)

1919

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 painting / peinture : oil on canvas
Support: 55.300 x 46.100 cm
Platemark: 67.500 x 57.500 x 8.000 cm
Inventory no.: op0315

Scope and content

This is item 145 in the Hamilton inventory
Digitization Project: World War I.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)
90: Open
Physical access restricted.
Graphic (art)
Copy negative C-105607
90: Open
Item no. (creator)
Item-91
Graphic (art)
90: Open
Box
OP-0315 Item no. assigned by LAC 91
90: Open
Other accession no.
00091
1988-180 X DAP

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1988-180-91
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Artist: Hamilton, Mary Riter, 1873-1954.

Additional information

Availability of other formats note
Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note
Exhibition title: No Man's Land: the Battlefield Paintings of Mary Riter Hamilton 1919-1922. Curators: Davis, Angela, University of Winnipeg Art Gallery; Winnipeg, Manitoba; 1989.11.05 - 1990.01.12.
Exhibition title: No Man's Land: The Battlefield Paintings of Mary Riter Hamilton. Curators: National Archives: 1993.03.25-1993.05.10. Further venue: Acadia University, Wolfville, N.S.: 1994.10.31-1994.12.02.
Further venue: Moose Jaw Art Museum, Saskatchewan: 1995.10.24-1995.12.03.
Exhibition Title : No Man's Land- The Battlefield Paintings of Mary Ritter Hamilton 1919-1922. Curator: Tony Tronrud, Thunder Bay Museum, Thunder Bay, Ontario; 2001.10.01 - 2001.11.15.
Exhibition title: No Man's Land: The Battlefield Paintings of Mary Riter Hamilton. Curators: National Archives, Ottawa, Ontario. Further Venue: Red Deer and District Museum, Red Deer, Alberta; 2004.10.02-2004.11.28.
Exhibition Title: No Man's Land- The Battlefield Paintings of Mary Ritter Hamilton 1919-1922. Curator: Dr. Sarah McKinnon, University of Winnipeg and Jim Burant National Archives of Canada in partnership with The War Amps, 136 St. Patrick Street, Ottawa, Ontario; 1998.11.05-1999.01.04.

Signatures and inscriptions
Inscribed. Signed. Dated.
Inscription: in blue oil paint, recto l.l.: Patie (sic) Vimy & Vimy Villiage (sic) / from the Lens Arras Road; l.l.: Mary Riter Hamilton / 1919 (date partly underlined); in pen and black ink on label laid down onto stretcher, verso u.r.: Petite (sic) Vimy and Vimy Village / from the Lens / Arrass (sic) Road 1919 / by Mary Riter Hamilton; black ink stamp on canvas, c.l. vertical: TOILES & COULEURS / EXTRA FINES / LUCIEN LEFEBURE-FOINET / PARIS / 19. RUE VAUIN & 2. RUE BARA; printed label in black ink on stretcher, u.c.: 145 (Complete Transcription)

Subject heading

1. cityscape.
2. GEOG - FRANCE, VIMY RIDGE.
3. GEOG - FRANCE, PETIT VIMY.
4. GEOG - FRANCE, VIMY.
5. GEOG - FRANCE, LENS-ARRAS ROAD.
6. Historical Events - 1914-1918.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

ICON43651

MIKAN no.

2836011