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Title

Femme Sauvage du Canada (Wild Woman of Canada)

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Arrangement structure

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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

Femme Sauvage du Canada

Date(s)

1796-1804

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 print / estampe : hand coloured etching and aquatint on laid paper
Support: 13.700 x 20.800 cm
Image: 9.500 x 14.900 cm

Scope and content

A fair skinned and light haired woman is standing on a field in her yellow coat and pink leggings.
The is likely etched for other editions of Encyclopédie des voyages as is suggested by the Sotheby's inventory list.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)

99: Closed pending processing
No restrictions on access for use in pub
lication or reproduction

Graphic (art)

99: Closed pending processing

Item no. assigned by LAC
3485

90: Open

Archival reference no.

R9266

Other accession no.

03485

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada / Bibilothèque et Archives Canada (R9266-3485) Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: expired/périmé

Additional name(s)

Engraver: Mixelle, Jean Marie, 1758?-1839.
Artist: Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1810.
Artist: Desrais, Claude-louis.

Additional information

Alpha-numeric note

Sotheby's inventory no. P304.

Signatures and inscriptions

Inscribed.
Inscription: in the plate, recto u.l.:Pag. 269.; u.r.:Tom. 4; l.l.:Desrais del.; l.r.:Mixelle sculp/52; b.:Femme Sauvage du Canada. (complete transcription)

Attributions and conjectures

This print was done in the studio of artist Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.

Subject heading

1. costume.
2. Indian.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

ICON201078

MIKAN no.

3025442