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McGill College Avenue, Montreal, Showing the Old College Building

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Item

Date:

n.d.

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2838334

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

McGill College Avenue, Montreal, Showing the Old College Building
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Date(s):

n.d.

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil, with scratching out on wove paper laid down
Image 28.000 x 39.000 cm
Secondary support 40.700 x 54.500 cm

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Subject depicts a city street with buildings on either side; street lined with trees; activity on the street by foot, sleigh, sledge; dominating building with dome at end of street, Prov: Sotheby Toronto, 28 Oct. 1968, #25; W.C. Pitfield family; Joyner 1975, p.64, Lit: McCord 1992, #100, This image is unlike Friend's usual style; w.c. said 1849-51, with foreground row of buildings depicted although not yet constructed

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Artist: Friend, Washington F., fl. 1820-1886

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Alpha-numeric note:

Sotheby's inventory no. W20

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.

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Inscription: in pencil, recto, l.l. [in a recent hand]: McGill College Street, Montreal, showing the old College Building; in pencil, recto, l.r. [in recent hand]: by W.F. Friend
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Québec

cityscape
Source:

Private

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00229
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Graphic (art)

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

Colour transparency [00229] C-151766

[Consultation 90 Open]

Item no. assigned by LAC [R9266] 229

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00229] C-151766

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-229 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: expired

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