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Title

Whistling Billy.

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Item (linked) part of

Edward D. Roper fonds [graphic material, textual record]

Date(s)

1887-1891

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 drawing / dessin : pen and black ink and pencil with scraping out on graphotype scraperboard
Support: 11.400 x 13.700 cm (sheet, three corners cropped)

Scope and content

This drawing is reproduced in Edward Roper's "By Track and Trail, A Journey Through Canada" (London, 1891), p.145.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)

99: Closed pending processing
no restrictions

Graphic (art)

99: Closed pending processing

Box
2000790684 Item no. assigned by LAC 7

Restrictions not set

Other accession no.

1989-176 DAP
00007

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1989-176-7
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Artist: Roper, Edward, 1833-1909.

Additional information

Signatures and inscriptions

Inscription: in pen and black ink, recto, l.r.: ER (in monogram); b.: "Whistling Billy" log. I cant see why some'r/ you Englishman dont invest some o'your/ capital in this yer country!; in pen and red ink, recto, l.r.: 24 (circled in red ink); in pen and black ink, recto, b.: 124 (crossed out with three horizontal lines in red ink)

Source

Private

Other system control no.

ICON69012

MIKAN no.

2903194