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Ottawa, Looking Down from Above the Locks Towards the Gatineau

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Item

Date:

ca. 1840-1892

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2838454

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

Ottawa, Looking Down from Above the Locks Towards the Gatineau
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Date(s):

ca. 1840-1892

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing : pen and ink, pencil on wove paper
Support 22.900 x 34.200 cm

Language of material:

no language

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One of four views of Ottawa found in an unbound sketchbook. Sotheby's list mentions that this is a preparatory sketch for the 1855 lithograph "Ottawa, Lower Town"., Image depicts the Outaouais River seen from the locks in Ottawa. There are some written instructions, such as "bright", spread here and there on the work., Item is in fairly good condition. There is some staining at the top of the work., Preservation copy photographs, both b&w and colour transparency, are held in the Loans and Exhibitions area of Preservation Branch.

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Artist: Whitefield, Edwin, 1816-1892

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General note:

sketchbook: Four Views of Ottawa

Alpha-numeric note:

Sotheby's inventory no. W245

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed.

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414 : pg. 2, v
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Ontario

cityscape
Source:

Private

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00414.2
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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] 414

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00414.2] C-150513

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-414.2V Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
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