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View near the Grand Battery

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

ca. 1807

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2838042

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

View near the Grand Battery
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Date(s):

ca. 1807

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : Watercolour, touches of gouache over graphite on laid paper
Support 20.500 x 31.800 cm

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View of an open space which seems to be near the wall of the Grand Battery; in the foreground people are milling about; men appear to be burning and shovelling while two children play on a see-saw. The Roman Catholic Cathedral is visible in the background at the right.

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Artist: Heriot, George, 1759-1839

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Alpha-numeric note:

Sotheby's inventory no. W41

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: The Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana Early Impressions of Quebec. Curators: Jim Burant, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2006.05.16 - 2006.09.05.
Further venue: Musée des Beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec; 2007.01.20 - 2007.03.18.
Further venue: La Citadelle, Québec, Québec; 2008.06.26 - 2008.09.01.
Subject heading:

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Québec

landscape
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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00258
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
No restriction on access or on use for publication or reproduction.

Item no. assigned by LAC [R9266] 258

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00258] C-151100

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-258 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: expired

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