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Title

Sledging Over Hummocky Ice, April 1853. 

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Item (linked) part of

W.H. Coverdale collection of Canadiana [multiple media] Manoir Richelieu collection (R3908-0-0-E)

Bilingual equivalent

Traîneau tiré sur des blocs de glace, avril 1853

Date(s)

1854

Place

Gate Street, London, England

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Publisher

Day & Son
sold by: Thomas Jefferys, Corner of St.Martins Lane, Charing Cross

Extent

1 print / estampe : coloured lithograph
Image: 40.900 x 32.000

Scope and content

Discoloured. Foxed. Damaged and torm from binding along upper edge. Brown parcel tape along lower edge, verso. Pin holes at edge of image at r. and l.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)
90: Open
Physical access through an art archivist
. No restriction on use for reproduction or publication
Graphic (art)
Copy negative C-041013
90: Open
Graphic (art)
90: Open
Box
A327-01/X1 Item no. assigned by LAC 1946
90: Open
Other accession no.
1970-188 PIC
01946

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1970-188-1946 W.H. Coverdale Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Artist: Cresswell, S. Gurney (Samuel Gurney), 1827-1867.
Engraver: Simpson, William, 1823-1899.
Publisher: Day & Son.
Printer: Day & Son.
Publisher: Ackermann and Company.

Additional information

publication: A Series of Eight Sketches ... by Lieut. S. G. Cresswell ... Northwest Passage. London, 1854, No. VIII.

Availability of other formats note
Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note
Exhibition title: First Impressions: European View of the Natural History of Canada. Curators: Victoria Dickenson, Eva Major-Marothy, Agnes Etherington Art Centre; 1992.09.20-1992.11.22. Further venue: Leonard And Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia U.: 1993.01.07-1993.02.20.
Further venue: Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon: 1993.05.07-1993.06.27.

Signatures and inscriptions
Inscribed. Signed. Dated.
Inscription: Inscribed in the print, lower border, "Lieut. S. Gurney Creswell [sic], Del W. Simpson, Lith. London, Published 15th May, 1854, by Day & Son, Gate St., Linc. Inn Fds & Ackermann & Co. Strand. Printed in colours by Day & Son, Lithrs. to the Queen. VIII [Titled as above]."

Subject heading

1. transportation.
2. SUBJ. - Transportation, Land : Sleigh.
3. SUBJ. - Discoveries & Explorations : 1850-1854, Belcher Expedition.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

ICON49127

MIKAN no.

2836443