Red River Settlement, Canada: a Christian missionary preaching to native North Americans. Watercolour attributed to an unidentified person called 'The Empire Traveller', ca. 1860.
- Date:
- 1860
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- 575268i
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Previous title, replaced August 2023 : A Christian missionary preaching to native North Americans. Watercolour attributed to an unidentified person called 'The Empire Traveller', ca. 1860.
Description
"A winter congregation at the Red-River Settlement", according to letterpress in the book Illustrations of missionary scenes, op. cit. The Red River Settlement covered territories in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and northern Minnesota
Publication/Creation
1860
Physical description
1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 66 x 101 cm
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Creator/production credits
Painted by a Christian traveller, perhaps a missionary, who had apparently travelled in many parts of the world including Africa and North America, and went round giving lectures on what he had read, seen and experienced. The paintings are on large sheets of paper and probably served to illustrate his lectures
Reference
Wellcome Collection 575268i
Notes
One of a number of watercolours in the Wellcome Library by an unidentified painter given the provisional name "The Empire Traveller"
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