Harrington Bird

Witness Carnival Number (Montreal Daily Witness)

Harrington Bird's original lithograph, "Witness Carnival Number" is printed upon 19th century wove paper and with full margins as published by the Montreal Daily Witness in 1885. The central scene depicts a sleigh race with a view of the ice palace in the distance, most likely, a sporting event that took place during that Montreal Winter Carnival. The image is adorned by a moose, a beaver and a buffalo on top, to the right and left of this winter scene, the artist depicts two men, one holding his snow shoes and the other a toboggan, all of this is of course very symbolic of Canada's fur trade. This is a fine, original example of the historical lithographic art created by Harrington Bird and of Canada's famous nineteenth century Montreal Winter Carnival.

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Original Lithograph with Tint Stone by the Canadian artist, Harrington Bird.

Witness Carnival Number

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01-		Ice Palace, 1885 printed by Burland Lithographic Company for the Montreal Daily Star, Montreal, Canada	Original Lithographic with Colour Tint Stone	1885	Montreal Daily Star, Montreal Canada	Sold
02.-		Little Queenie by the Weekly Star, Montreal, Canada	Original Chromolithograph	1896	Weekly Star & the Family Herald, Montreal Canada	Sold
03-		Rural Bliss by William Raphael for the Montreal Daily Star, Montreal, Canada	Original Lithographic with Colour Tint Stone	1885	Montreal Daily Star, Montreal Canada	Sold
04.-		Storming of The Ice Palace by Henri Octave Julien for the Montreal Daily Star, Montreal, Canada	Original Lithographic with Colour Tint Stone	1885	Montreal Daily Star, Montreal Canada	Sold
05.-		The Bounce printed by Burland Lithographic Company for the Montreal Daily Star, Montreal, Canada	Original Lithographic with Colour Tint Stone	1887	Montreal Daily Star, Montreal Canada	Sold
06.-		The River Boulevard by Harrington Bird for the Montreal Daily Witness, Montreal Canada	Original Lithographic with Colour Tint Stone	1885	Montreal Daily Witness, Montreal Canada	Sold
07.-		Tobogganing by Henri Octave Julien for the Montreal Daily Star, Montreal, Canada	Original Lithographic with Colour Tint Stone	1885	Montreal Daily Star, Montreal Canada	Sold
08.-		Witness Carnival Number by Harrington Bird for the Montreal Daily Witness, Montreal Canada	Original Lithographic with Colour Tint Stone	1885	Montreal Daily Witness, Montreal Canada	Sold

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Title:	Witness Carnival Number
Artist:	Bird, Harrington (Madras, India, 1846 - London, 1904)
Date:	1885
Medium:	Original Lithograph with Tint Stone
Publisher:	Montreal Daily Witness, Montreal Canada
Note:	Harrington Bird: Born into a British military family in India, Harrington Bird studied art at the Royal Academy in London in 1868. He emigrated to Montreal in 1877 in order to assume the post of Director at the Montreal School of Art. Within several years he had also become the professor of art at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. His paintings and prints were widely exhibited and Bird became best known for his sporting art and genre scenes. Shortly before his return to England in 1888, Harrington Bird was elected an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy.
	In Britain Bird continued to exhibit his art at many institutions, including the royal Academy, London. During this period he designed large etchings of major English race horses, with particular emphasis on Derby champions.
	The Montreal Daily Witness and Montreal Daily Star became major Canadian publishers of original lithographs and wood engravings with the increasing popularity of the Montreal Winter Carnival. From its beginning in 1883 the Carnival was Canada's first winter event and predated Quebec City's carnival by eleven years. This week long carnival was certainly no small undertaking. Sporting events and entertainments were scheduled throughout the city and a towering ice castle was sculpted from which highly elaborate attacks and defenses were staged. The sporting events included tandem sleigh racing, tobogganing, snow-shoeing, curling and the recently invented game of ice hockey.
	Because of the carnival's widespread popularity competing Montreal publishers commissioned the services of Canada's finest artists to commemorate the events. The Montreal Daily Witness was particularly well represented in this aspect with such artists as William Raphael, Harrington Bird and Robert Harris. The imaginative and original works of art these famous artists made at this time stand as a valuable historical document of nineteenth century Canada. These lithographs and wood engravings are also very scarce.
Size:	14 1/2 X 10 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon nineteenth century wove paper and with full margins as published by the Montreal Daily Witness in the winter of 1885. A fine impression and in excellent condition throughout. Witness Carnival Number represents a prime, original example of the nineteenth century sporting art of Harrington Bird.
Price:	Sold - The price is no longer available.
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