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Title

For Auld Lang Syne, Gold Fields, Australia.

Arrangement structure

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Item (linked) part of

Edward D. Roper Fonds [graphic material, textual records]

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 drawing / dessin : pencil on wove paper
Support: 15.700 x 20.000 cm (sheet)

Scope and content

On the recto in the center is a group of men [gold miners] celebrating and drinking. In the lower center is a detailed look at the equipment used by the gold hunters: a bucket, pan, pick-axe, shovel etc.
On the verso is red chalk, indicating that this drawing was probably intended to be copied or transferred onto another paper. Accession numbers 1989-176-126 to 1989-176-133 are attached together with a cord, upper left corner.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)

99: To be determined
no restrictions

Graphic (art)

99: To be determined

Item no. assigned by LAC
00132

Restrictions not set

Other accession no.

1989-176 DAP
00132

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1989-176-132
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Artist: Roper, Edward, 1833-1909.

Additional information

Signatures and inscriptions

Inscription: in pencil, recto, l.c., in the image: FOR AULD LANG SYNE; l.r.: THE CHERRIES WHICH/ GROW WITH STONES OUTSIDE

Subject heading

1. artifact.
2. objet façonné.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

ICON70228

MIKAN no.

2904367