The Pike

The PikeWILLIAM POPE (British Canadian, 1811 1902) The Pike Pen and ink and watercolor Signed W. P lower left Paper size: 7 1 2 x 9 1 2 in. Provenance The artists family and thence by descent. Exhibited: Simcoe Ontario, Lynnwood Art Centre, Birds of a Feather, 3 31 May 1987 (a selection). Simcoe, Ontario, Eva Brook Donly Museum, May 7 June 1987 (a selection). Simcoe, Ontario, Lynnwood Art Centre, 4 August 3 September 1989 (a selection) Like his fellow artist

mapping took on new importance

the title within a banner along the top edge

made so that the Florentine Vespucci could claim to have beaten the Genoan Columbus to the New World

rather than topography and roads

at the time of Gen

which was at the time a notable center both for cartography and for illumination

and he produced a major painting

he selected a corps of nine scientists to accompany the mission and he put himself in charge of the physical sciences

" even including the "April 2nd

a glorious destiny indelibly written in the literal stone of the country's landscape

clearly indicate that it was the King who instructed the artist to accompany the expedition

Richard Rummell