Red River Settlement, Canada: a Christian missionary preaching to native North Americans. Watercolour attributed to an unidentified person called 'The Empire Traveller', ca. 1860.

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1860
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575268i
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Red River Settlement, Canada: a Christian missionary preaching to native North Americans. Watercolour attributed to an unidentified person called 'The Empire Traveller', ca. 1860. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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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

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1860

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1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 66 x 101 cm

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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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Wellcome Collection 575268i

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

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