Sale of Original Sketch
Heffel Gallery sale of original sketch
Village of the Friendly Indians at the Entrance of Butes Canal
sold for $55,575.00 CDN, May 17, 2012
Ink and grey wash sketch by Thomas Heddington made during Captain George Vancouver’s 1792 exploration of the Inside Passage. Engraved for Vancouver’s Journals, it pictures a Homalco village at the junction of Bute Inlet and the Arran Rapids at Stuart Island.