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Description found in Archives

Title

Back view of Canadian man and woman in their winter dress, Quebec. 

Online
 (1)

Arrangement structure

Date(s)

November 21, 1805

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 watercolour : pen and brown ink on wove paper ; 19.9 x 15.9 cm.

Scope and content

Rear view of Canadian man and woman in winter dress, 1990-336-11X. Full length.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)
90: Open
To be viewed with the assistance of the
Portrait Gallery of Canada.
Graphic (art)
Copy negative C-014838
90: Open
Graphic (art)
90: Open
Item no. assigned by LAC
13
90: Open
Other accession no.
00020
1990-336 X DAP

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1990-336-1.13R / c014838
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Biography / Administrative history

Lieutenant Sempronius Stretton was 22 years old when he arrived to Canada for a three year military posting. Fascinated by the new country, he kept a sketchbook in which he recorded both the landscape and its inhabitants in their remarkable winter clothing.

Additional information

Removed from: sketchbook: watercolour oriented sideways on folio 20, recto

Availability of other formats note
Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note
Exhibition title: Mirror of Canada Past. Curators: Staff of the National Archives, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1972.06.01 - 1972.09.25, cat. no.: no. 37-7.

Signatures and inscriptions
Inscribed. Signed. Dated.
Inscription: in pen and brown ink, recto, t.:Back view of the above _

Subject heading

1. Québec.
2. costume.
3. SUBJ - COSTUMES, REGIONS - CENTRAL CANADA - 1805.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

MIKAN no.

2837075