The Governor of Red River, driving his family on the river in a horse cariole (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Date1826
Names
Rindisbacher, Peter, 1806-1834
(artist)
Format
Inscribed in the print, l.r.: Printed by West Day 59. Gt. Queen Street; b.: THE GOVERNOR of RED RIVER, driving his FAMILY on the RIVER in a HORSE CARIOLE. One of a set of six (Accs. JRR 2348-53) of which Library's book collection has four (this being plate [3]) with front wrapper watermarked 1826 bearing title Views in Hudson's Bay... (BR JB fo O.S. 917.127 V 37). E.H. Bovay, Le Canada et les Suisses, no. 71. The figure of Robert Parker Pelly (governor of Assiniboia 1823-5) replaces that of Andrew H. Bulger (governor 1822-3) shown in Rindisbacher's Westc. Fort Douglas is in the background.
Subject
Medium
Dimensions176 x 291; 195 x 291; 222 x 329 mm x mm
Language
CollectionBaldwin Collection of Canadiana
Usage Rights
Public Domain
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Call Number / Accession NumberJRR 2349
Country:Canada
City, town or township:Winnipeg
Province or state:Manitoba
approximately 1860
Approximately 1909