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Item part of: W.H. Coverdale Collection of Canadiana

  A Black Wood Cutter at Shelburne, Nova Scotia / Bûcheeon noir à Shelburne, en Nouvelle Écosse ( Nova Scotia / Nouvelle Écosse )

[graphic]

1788 — watercolour sketch

SCOPE AND CONTENT:

Laid down, middle and corners. Hinges on mount vers. Discoloured. Diagonal black crease marks across u.r. corner. Laid paper, water-marked.

Sir Robert Ker Porter Collection. Sale, Christies, 1843. Manoir Richelieu Collection.

Useful lumbering. Useful negro subject. Rare and early example.

Dictionary Nat. Biog. XVI, "Porter" 190-192.

Digitization project: Living Memory/Mémoire Vivante.

Inscription: Signed in pencil, recto, u.l., by "W. Booth Engrs." Above this, "A Black Wood Cutter at Shelburne, Nova Scotia 1788." Inscribed on mount, verso, "brother in law of Sir Robt. Ker Porter - Ambassador to Rome & - the Miss[e]s Porter Jane & Anne Maria -"
 

REFERENCE NUMBERS:
  ACCESSION:  1970-188-1090
  REPRODUCTION:  C-040162

CONSULTATION/REPRODUCTION:
Graphics: art      Open. No restrictions on access or on use for reproductions or publication.
 
USE/REPRODUCTION:
Copyright:  Expired
Credit:  Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1970-188-1090 W.H. Coverdale Collection of Canadiana
 
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
watercolour / aquarelle
Image: 16.5 x 22.7
 
CREATORS: Booth, W. (1748-1826) (active ca. 1785-1788)
 
SUBJECT HEADINGS:

work
GEOG. - N.S. : Shelbrune
SUBJ. - Portrait : Depicting A Black Wood Cutter - 1788
SUBJ. - Immigration And Colonization : Negro
SUBJ. - Work : Wood Cutting And Lumbering
ART. - Booth W. (1748-1826) (active ca. 1785-1788)
 
SOURCE: ICON 48698








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