Great Lakes Art Database

Lake Superior (Ontario; 1864?)

Description
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Creator
Hopkins, Frances Anne (Beechey), Artist
Item Type
Etchings
Description
Hopkins' oil painting "Canoes in a Fog, Lake Superior", 1869, and a watercolour study for it are in Glenbow-Alberta Institute. Another oil is in ROM and another watercolour study is in Art Gallery of Hamilton. (Glenbow Collects, 1970, pp. 20-21; The Beaver, Autumn 1971, pp. 4-19; Canada in the Nineteenth Century, 1984, no. 46).

Inscribed in the plate, l.l.: PAINTED BY E. HOPKINS.; l.c.: ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS; IN THE YEAR 1873; BY M. KNOEDLER & Co. IN THE OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN OF COPYRIGHT AT WASHINGTON.; l.r.: ENGRAVED BY CHARLES MOTTRAM.; l.c.: LAKE SUPERIOR.; l.c.: PUBLISHED BY M. KNOEDLER & C9 NEW YORK; GOUPIL & C? PARIS AND 17, SOUTHAMPTON STREET, STRAND; LONDON. NOVR 1st 1873._COPYRIGHT REGISTERED. / Printed by Holdgate Bros.; l.l.: Proof Blindstamp, l.r.: PRINTSELLERS / ASSOCIATION / [in oval surrounding] / ETF; Friend p. 120.
Notes
Etching on India paper laid down on wove paper.
Date of Original
1873
Date Of Event
from image dated 1869
Dimensions
Width: 92.3 cm
Height: 63.1 cm
Image Dimensions
Image Width: 78.4cm
Image Height: 47.9cm
Subject(s)
Canoes
Geographic Coverage
  • Lake Superior
    Ontario, Canada
    Latitude: 48.332222 Longitude: -87.098611
Creative Commons licence
Public Domain [more details]
Copyright Statement
Public domain: Copyright has expired according to the applicable Canadian or American laws. No restrictions on use.
Contact
Association for Great Lakes Maritime History
Website:
https://aglmh.net

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Lake Superior (Ontario; 1864?)


Hopkins' oil painting "Canoes in a Fog, Lake Superior", 1869, and a watercolour study for it are in Glenbow-Alberta Institute. Another oil is in ROM and another watercolour study is in Art Gallery of Hamilton. (Glenbow Collects, 1970, pp. 20-21; The Beaver, Autumn 1971, pp. 4-19; Canada in the Nineteenth Century, 1984, no. 46).

Inscribed in the plate, l.l.: PAINTED BY E. HOPKINS.; l.c.: ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS; IN THE YEAR 1873; BY M. KNOEDLER & Co. IN THE OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN OF COPYRIGHT AT WASHINGTON.; l.r.: ENGRAVED BY CHARLES MOTTRAM.; l.c.: LAKE SUPERIOR.; l.c.: PUBLISHED BY M. KNOEDLER & C9 NEW YORK; GOUPIL & C? PARIS AND 17, SOUTHAMPTON STREET, STRAND; LONDON. NOVR 1st 1873._COPYRIGHT REGISTERED. / Printed by Holdgate Bros.; l.l.: Proof Blindstamp, l.r.: PRINTSELLERS / ASSOCIATION / [in oval surrounding] / ETF; Friend p. 120.