Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Canadian couple

Not sure of the date of this - anyone know?

3 comments:

  1. The drawing resides in the Montreal Archives ( Ville de Montréal. Gestion de documents et archives). The Archives dates it "Ca. 1750" There are a series of drawings depicting various peoples of Canada. Here are links to several other images that appear to be part of the same collection: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Abenakis.jpg

    http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/archives/democratie/democratie_fr/media/images/contenu/expo/pieces/inspection/Algonquins300-4X5.jpg
    It appears to be

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  2. Although some historians think it might be slightly post 1760.

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