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Title

The Mail Carried Across Lake Huron from Penetanguishene to Sault Ste-Marie. 

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Item (linked) part of

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition [graphic material, cartographic material] (R9266-5-0-E)

Bilingual equivalent

Traîneau postal sur le lac Huron entre Penetanguishene et Sault Ste-Marie

Date(s)

March 1853

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 watercolour / aquarelle : pencil, watercolour and gouache on wove paper
Support: 28.500 x 21.600 cm
Secondary support: 41.500 x 34.200 cm (mount, matted)

Scope and content

Image depicting two Natives on snowshoes; one is carrying a brown sack over his shoulder while the other pulls a sled with packages on it. They are accompanied by two dogs who, shod in small booties, are themselves lugging a heavily packed sled.
Item is slightly dirty due to the matting which left a part of the work exposed while the other part was shielded.
Preservation copy photographs, both b&w and colour transparency, are held in the Loans and Exhibitions area of Preservation Branch.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)
99: Closed pending processing
No restriction on access or on use for p
ublication or reproduction.
Graphic (art)
Copy negative C-150505
Restrictions not set
Graphic (art)
99: Closed pending processing
Item no. assigned by LAC
422
90: Open
Archival reference no.
R9266
Other accession no.
00422

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-422 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: expired

Additional name(s)

Artist: Wilkinson, Berdoe Amherst, active ca. 1844-1853.

Additional information

Availability of other formats note
Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note
Exhibition Title: The Peter Winkworth Collections of Canadiana: Loyal She Remains- Ontario. Curator: Jim Burant, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2005.09.17 -2006.10.22. Further Venue: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario; 2005.09.17- 2005.11.27. Further Venue: Art Gallery of Windor, Windsor, Ontario; 2006.02.11-2006.03.26. Further Venue: Museum London, London, Ontario; 2006.08.19-2006.10.22.

Alpha-numeric note
Sotheby's inventory no. W242

Signatures and inscriptions
Inscribed. Signed. Dated.
Inscription: in brown watercolour, recto l.c.: . THE MAIL TRAIN . MOHAWKS / PENETANGUISHENE, MARCH 1853; l.l.: THE MAIL FOR "SAULTE DE STE MARIE" IS CARRIED ACROSS LAKE "HURON" ON THE ICE.; in brown ink, l.r.: B.A.W.; (partial transcription)

Subject heading

1. Ontario.
2. work.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

ICON190108

MIKAN no.

2838475