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- Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British) 26
- Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian) 6
- Toyohara Kunichika 6
- Unknown 6
- Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847 – 1915, Japanese) 5
- Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese) 5
- C. Firth 3
- Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian) 3
- Ito Sojun 3
- John Arthur Fraser (1838 – 1898, English) 3
- William Notman (1826 – 1891) 3
- Kotani (or, Odani) Kingaku 2
- Date
- 1870 – 1890
- Medium
- wood; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0261 a,b
- Description
- Palmate, flat fans with carved, black gold lacquer handles with purple tassels. (a) lady in a house reading, lady is quilted to create relief. Lamp, books and table and teapot are appliqued cut outs;. Calligraphy and chop mark on right. Obverse of fan is trellis and blossoms (b) two ladies with …
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- Title
- fan
- Date
- 1870 – 1890
- Medium
- wood; fibre
- Dimensions
- 0.7 x 23.0 x 35.8 cm
- Description
- Palmate, flat fans with carved, black gold lacquer handles with purple tassels. (a) lady in a house reading, lady is quilted to create relief. Lamp, books and table and teapot are appliqued cut outs;. Calligraphy and chop mark on right. Obverse of fan is trellis and blossoms (b) two ladies with insect cage, hunting in reeds. Ladies and cage quilted to create relief. Calligraphy and chop mark on right, obverse plain. Both fans are fabric over bamboo or reed with painted and appliqued designs.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0261 a,b
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Summit of the Rockies and Mt. Field
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- Date
- c. 1886
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- AiJ.05.01
- Description
- The scene is comprised mainly of a mountain and a lake. The lake takes up approx. 1/2 of the work, and is cropped in the brc by the frame. The blc is the shoreline of the lake. On the right and left side of the piece, just above the lake, the beginning of two treed mountain sides head out of the…
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- Title
- Summit of the Rockies and Mt. Field
- Date
- c. 1886
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Description
- The scene is comprised mainly of a mountain and a lake. The lake takes up approx. 1/2 of the work, and is cropped in the brc by the frame. The blc is the shoreline of the lake. On the right and left side of the piece, just above the lake, the beginning of two treed mountain sides head out of the picture frame. These two slopes frame a clear mountain in the background which is centered in the middle of the piece. They sky is quite cloudy.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- Mt. Field
- Credit
- Gift of Donald Grace, Saanichton, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- AiJ.05.01
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View of Goat Mountain
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- Date
- 1888
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BeS.05.01
- Description
- Colour: blue, green, yellow. Two people in a canoe paddle across the lake in the lower part of the picture. Two shore lines are seen on both sides. Beyond are yellow and green hills rising up to purple mountain One pear is prominent in the distance. Clear blue fills the top.This painting was lent t…
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- Title
- View of Goat Mountain
- Date
- 1888
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- Colour: blue, green, yellow. Two people in a canoe paddle across the lake in the lower part of the picture. Two shore lines are seen on both sides. Beyond are yellow and green hills rising up to purple mountain One pear is prominent in the distance. Clear blue fills the top.This painting was lent to the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1975 to be included in the exhibition The Railway: A patron of the Arts in Canada. The exhibition was circulated across the country for two years.
- Credit
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Tabuteau, Banff, 1966
- Catalogue Number
- BeS.05.01
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Mt. Rundle, Vermilion Lakes, Banff, N.W.T.
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- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BeS.05.06
- Description
- Mt. Rundle with Vermilion Lakes in foreground. A figure in a canoe is on the shore of the lake in the lower centre of image.
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- Title
- Mt. Rundle, Vermilion Lakes, Banff, N.W.T.
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 33.5 x 48.6 cm
- Description
- Mt. Rundle with Vermilion Lakes in foreground. A figure in a canoe is on the shore of the lake in the lower centre of image.
- Credit
- Gift of Ted and Judy Mills, Mill Bay, 2005
- Catalogue Number
- BeS.05.06
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Hector Lake, Kicking Horse Pass, BC
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- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BeS.05.07
- Description
- Mountain landscape with large glassy lake in centre of painting. Abstract foliage and stand of dead trees in foreground at right. Brown treed slopes on opposite shore with large snow-capped mountains in distance. Small white and red buildings on far shore of lake. Title written in bottom left corne…
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- Title
- Hector Lake, Kicking Horse Pass, BC
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 32.8 x 48.0 cm
- Description
- Mountain landscape with large glassy lake in centre of painting. Abstract foliage and stand of dead trees in foreground at right. Brown treed slopes on opposite shore with large snow-capped mountains in distance. Small white and red buildings on far shore of lake. Title written in bottom left corner. “F.M. Bell-Smith 1887” at bottom right.
- Credit
- Gift of Mark Cullen, 2021
- Catalogue Number
- BeS.05.07
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Untitled [Emblem]
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- Artist
- Takahashi
- Date
- 1884
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BoA.03.01
- Description
- Centered on the page is a fishing float design. It is circular with a diamond center. On each tip of the diamond is a small circle that joins the larger circle. The inside of the diamond, and the space between the diamond and the circle are shaded with a grey.
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- Artist
- Takahashi
- Title
- Untitled [Emblem]
- Date
- 1884
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 18.0 x 32.5 cm
- Description
- Centered on the page is a fishing float design. It is circular with a diamond center. On each tip of the diamond is a small circle that joins the larger circle. The inside of the diamond, and the space between the diamond and the circle are shaded with a grey.
- Subject
- design
- fishing float
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- BoA.03.01
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- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BrH.05.01
- Description
- General colour: red, yellow, blue. The left profile and torso of a boy dressed in a uniform. Blue pants with a yellow stripe and a red jacket and a blue hat. He holds a trumpet and faces left.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 26 x 19 cm
- Description
- General colour: red, yellow, blue. The left profile and torso of a boy dressed in a uniform. Blue pants with a yellow stripe and a red jacket and a blue hat. He holds a trumpet and faces left.
- Credit
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Tabuteau, Banff, 1966
- Catalogue Number
- BrH.05.01
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Japanese Woman and Child
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- Date
- 1882
- Medium
- ink and colour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BuW.05.01
- Description
- Frontispiece Japan Day by Day Volume I by Edward S. Morse. A farmyard scene. A woman wearing a grey kimono, blue sash, carries a baby on her back, he is dressed in blue and red and has a small kite in his left hand. She is looking down at a rooster who with a hen behind him are looking at three egg…
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- Title
- Japanese Woman and Child
- Date
- 1882
- Medium
- ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
- 36.1 x 25.2 cm
- Description
- Frontispiece Japan Day by Day Volume I by Edward S. Morse. A farmyard scene. A woman wearing a grey kimono, blue sash, carries a baby on her back, he is dressed in blue and red and has a small kite in his left hand. She is looking down at a rooster who with a hen behind him are looking at three eggs on the ground. Five figures in background, houses to right centre, a snow-capped mountain is in background, sky is blue with yellowish clouds. Written on back: Mrs. Russell Robb Concord, Mass.
- Subject
- farmyard
- Mount Fujijama
- buildings
- people
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- BuW.05.01
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- Artist
- William Cartwright
- Date
- 1872
- Medium
- graphite; ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CaW.09.01
- Description
- A small sketchbook with notes written in ink script and light sketches in pencil. Sketches are mainly of pastoral scenes but some city and boating scenes are within. Some pages have been scribbled over, presumably by a child. In the front of the book is “Wm Cartwright from his sister [??] 1872”.
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- Artist
- William Cartwright
- Title
- Sketchbook
- Date
- 1872
- Medium
- graphite; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.0 x 16.0 cm
- Description
- A small sketchbook with notes written in ink script and light sketches in pencil. Sketches are mainly of pastoral scenes but some city and boating scenes are within. Some pages have been scribbled over, presumably by a child. In the front of the book is “Wm Cartwright from his sister [??] 1872”.
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1981
- Catalogue Number
- CaW.09.01
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- Date
- 1878
- Medium
- coloured woodcut on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ChY.04.03 a-c
- Description
- (a) actor costumed with flowing mane, peonies on his hat and in his hand, wearing blue robes (b) 37.1 x 25.0/35.7 x 24.5 actor with long flowing white mane, also with peonies on his hat and in hand, wearing red robes (c)37.1 x 25.0/36.0 x 24.5 actor with flowing mane, purple robes, with large peoni…
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- Title
- Dancing Lions
- Date
- 1878
- Medium
- coloured woodcut on paper
- Dimensions
- 37.1 x 25.0 cm
- Description
- (a) actor costumed with flowing mane, peonies on his hat and in his hand, wearing blue robes (b) 37.1 x 25.0/35.7 x 24.5 actor with long flowing white mane, also with peonies on his hat and in hand, wearing red robes (c)37.1 x 25.0/36.0 x 24.5 actor with flowing mane, purple robes, with large peonies in the background. All actors hats have bells around the brim.
- Subject
- figure, male
- activity
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- ChY.04.03 a-c
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Viewing of Chrysanthemums at the Temporary Imperial Palace
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- Date
- 1888
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ChY.04.07 a-c
- Description
- This triptych is a summer scene made up of mostly greens and reds. The three panels all feature groups of women. There is a lake in the background. The first panel contains a group of three women,2 standing and one crouching, in the foreground. In the background are 3 more women immersed in the…
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- Title
- Viewing of Chrysanthemums at the Temporary Imperial Palace
- Date
- 1888
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Dimensions
- 37 x 74 cm
- Description
- This triptych is a summer scene made up of mostly greens and reds. The three panels all feature groups of women. There is a lake in the background. The first panel contains a group of three women,2 standing and one crouching, in the foreground. In the background are 3 more women immersed in the flowers. In the trc os a building on an overhang. The second panel features 4 women clustered in front of large flowers. The third panel also contains 4 women. In the tlc is a gazebo of sorts with flowers all around.
- Subject
- group
- women
- activity
- summer
- flower viewing
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- ChY.04.07 a-c
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Tokyo Aristocratic School Picture of Banquet of Gakushu
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- Date
- 1877
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ChY.04.09 a-c
- Description
- This triptych is highly decorative with a flower motif on everything from the carpet to the kimonos. Most prevalent colour is red and green. A banquet is occurring. On the first panel in the trc two women sit on a platform. 5 other women standing and sitting are in this panel as well, all facin…
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- Title
- Tokyo Aristocratic School Picture of Banquet of Gakushu
- Date
- 1877
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Dimensions
- 36 x 72 cm
- Description
- This triptych is highly decorative with a flower motif on everything from the carpet to the kimonos. Most prevalent colour is red and green. A banquet is occurring. On the first panel in the trc two women sit on a platform. 5 other women standing and sitting are in this panel as well, all facing right. The second panel features a table covered with food and flowers. 3 active women are gathered around the table, almost blending into the decorations while a fourth woman kneels in the trc facing right. A rectangular descriptive panel is in the trc. The third panel features a separate room in the tlc where the men are gathered around a table and served by women. 5 women are gathered in the foreground of this panel playing instruments and holding small bowls; they are facing the table that is in the second panel.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- ChY.04.09 a-c
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Viewing of Cherry Blossoms at Ueno Pleasure Park
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- Date
- 1878
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ChY.04.10 a-c
- Description
- This triptych takes place inside of a large pagoda with floral carpeting. The walls are open, revealing the landscape around: A hill with stairs overlooking the water in the first panel, a lake with Mt. Fuji in the backgound in the second panel, and lake and trees in the third panel. A purple dra…
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- Title
- Viewing of Cherry Blossoms at Ueno Pleasure Park
- Date
- 1878
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Dimensions
- 36.0 x 73.5 cm
- Description
- This triptych takes place inside of a large pagoda with floral carpeting. The walls are open, revealing the landscape around: A hill with stairs overlooking the water in the first panel, a lake with Mt. Fuji in the backgound in the second panel, and lake and trees in the third panel. A purple drapery extends along the top of the triptych, and flowers flow from this. In the first panel four women are gathered in a group on the carpet; in the second panel four women are also gathered: all quite animated. In the third panel a group of men sit in uniform on a raised section of the pagoda while four women sit and stand in the foreground.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- ChY.04.10 a-c
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Flower Viewing on the Boat
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- Date
- 1879
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ChY.04.14 a-c
- Description
- This triptych features 16 women viewing flowers and fish from 2 boats and a dock. The first panel has 5 women all looking down towards the water. They are standing on a dock. In the tlc a tree is in blossom these blossoms stretch all the way into the third panel. A long boat intersects the 1st…
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- Title
- Flower Viewing on the Boat
- Date
- 1879
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Dimensions
- 37 x 75 cm
- Description
- This triptych features 16 women viewing flowers and fish from 2 boats and a dock. The first panel has 5 women all looking down towards the water. They are standing on a dock. In the tlc a tree is in blossom these blossoms stretch all the way into the third panel. A long boat intersects the 1st, second and third panels. in this long decorative boat are 7 woman. One woman in the second panel is standing to row. The rest are seated and mostly looking into the water. A third boat floats under a bridge in the third panel. A woman stands at the head of the boat rowing. In the brc of the third panel are many flowers from which the second boat emerges. A group of Red Carp is visible in bottom of the centre panel.
- Subject
- gathering
- women
- activity
- boating
- flower viewing
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- ChY.04.14 a-c
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Part of Old Banff
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- Artist
- D. Clark
- Date
- 1888
- Medium
- watercolour on heavy paper
- Catalogue Number
- CiD.05.01
- Description
- The oldest known painting of the Banff townsite. It shows Stoney Squaw to the left, Cascade to the right with Brewster in background. A false fronted building in left foreground has Groceries, dry goods, L.C. Fulmer written on front, bigger building to the right foreground Banff Hotel, Keefe, ????.…
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- Artist
- D. Clark
- Title
- Part of Old Banff
- Date
- 1888
- Medium
- watercolour on heavy paper
- Dimensions
- 21 x 35.5 cm
- Description
- The oldest known painting of the Banff townsite. It shows Stoney Squaw to the left, Cascade to the right with Brewster in background. A false fronted building in left foreground has Groceries, dry goods, L.C. Fulmer written on front, bigger building to the right foreground Banff Hotel, Keefe, ????. A log structure to centre left, a small red building centre right, five trees in centre, numerous stumps. The grass and trees are green. Along the bottom of the picture is inscribed: Part of original Banff Siding 29? 1888 Cascade Mtn 8K - D Clark, Agent CPR.Siding 29 was established in 1883 at the base of Cascade Mtn. The CPR moved the station to its current Banff location in 1889 and by 1897 all the residents of the old town had moved to the new town of Banff. Eleanor Luxton, Banff Canada’s First National Park... pg. 68
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1974
- Catalogue Number
- CiD.05.01
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- Date
- c. 1885
- Medium
- graphite on paper board
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.071
- Description
- Drawing of a farming disc, the first few discs are show as the disappear into the piece, and the seat sits high up on the piece.“An unlikely combination of practical entrepreneur and preoccupied artist, Collings was involved with farm machinery sales between 1882 and 1888 in England. A writer who i…
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- Title
- Rusty Disk
- Date
- c. 1885
- Medium
- graphite on paper board
- Dimensions
- 25 x 30 cm
- Description
- Drawing of a farming disc, the first few discs are show as the disappear into the piece, and the seat sits high up on the piece.“An unlikely combination of practical entrepreneur and preoccupied artist, Collings was involved with farm machinery sales between 1882 and 1888 in England. A writer who interviewed the artist in 1924 had the impression that Collings envisaged farm equipment as means for creating an enormous painting-like but three-dimensional “landscape.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1982
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.071
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- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.097
- Description
- Profile portrait of the bust of a woman with her head gazing downwards.“The woman’s head is bowed as though she is preoccupied with something in front of her; perhaps it is the artist’s wife, Mellora, playing the piano. The woman’s eyes and mouth, and tendrils of hair at the nape are treated sensit…
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- Title
- Melora
- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 25 x 18 cm
- Description
- Profile portrait of the bust of a woman with her head gazing downwards.“The woman’s head is bowed as though she is preoccupied with something in front of her; perhaps it is the artist’s wife, Mellora, playing the piano. The woman’s eyes and mouth, and tendrils of hair at the nape are treated sensitively while flowers in the background underscore her femininity.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Subject
- portrait
- Mellora Collings
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.097
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Sailing Ships from Dartmouth
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- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.273
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- Title
- Sailing Ships from Dartmouth
- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 26 x 20 cm
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.273
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Sailboat on River
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- Date
- c. 1885
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.286
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- Title
- Sailboat on River
- Date
- c. 1885
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 16 x 20 cm
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.286
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Two-Masted Sailboat
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- Date
- c. 1885
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.287
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- Title
- Two-Masted Sailboat
- Date
- c. 1885
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 19 cm
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.287
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