Portage of the Riviere Cachee, St. Maurice.

Portage of the Riviere Cachee, St. Maurice.

Portage of the Riviere Cachee, St. Maurice.

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Introduction

This watercolor painting by Phillip John Bainbrigge is of a portage scene, with men carrying canoes and backpacks over the portage at Riviere Cachee. The specific Great Lakes nation of the figures in the painting is now known. It was painted in 1837.

Nation of Maker: Unknown
Date Made or Date Range: 1837
Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

LAC record

Materials

Watercolor; pencil; wove paper

Techniques or Format

watercolour over pencil on wove paper

Other Notes

Inscribed. Signed. Dated.

Inscription: in pen and brown ink, recto l.l. on mount: Portage of the Riviére Cacheé, St Maurice. 1837.; in pen and brown ink, verso c.: Portage of the Riviére Cacheé / S ][t.] Maurice - 1837

Dimensions: 0 × 35 × 25.1 cm
Condition: Good
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

LAC record

Current Location: Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: Mikan no. 2836334
Link to Institution's Collections Database: collectionscanada.gc.ca
Collection Narratives and Histories

Bainbrigge is associated with a large group of other officers and colonial officials and their families in terms of copying and exchanging art works. He copied works by or loaned works to such individuals as Millicent Mary Chaplin, George St. Vincent Whitmore, Fanny Bayfield, Henry James Warre, Alexander Mercer, and James P. Cockburn. Bainbrigge painted mostly watercolour scenes of Upper and Lower Canada.

GKS Reference Number: 1253
How to Cite this Item

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1983-47-107

Record Creation Notes/Observations

This record was created by Anne de Stecher during an RAship for Prof. Ruth Phillips.

Approximate Place of Origin

43.3, -78.1

Source of Information about Places

The painting is of a scene in the Eastern Great Lakes region.

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