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The Horseshoe Falls, Niagara, from Goat Island

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Date:

ca. 1822-1832

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2838607

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

The Horseshoe Falls, Niagara, from Goat Island
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Date(s):

ca. 1822-1832

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil on wove paper laid down
Support 15.300 x 24.100 cm
Secondary support 22.800 x 35.600 cm

Language of material:

no language

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Image depicting a view of the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara seen through a wooded foreground. Two people lean over a large tree root to get a better glance at the bottom of the falls., An old backing is kept underneath the newer hinged mount. It has browned but the inscription in the lower right-hand corner is still very legible: "J.P.C. / Horse Shoe Fall from Goat Island"

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Artist: Cockburn, James Pattison, 1779-1847

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Alpha-numeric note:

Sotheby's inventory no. W552

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed., Inscription: in brown ink, verso l.r.: The Horse Shoe / from Goat Island / J.P.C.; (complete transcription)
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Ontario

landscape
Source:

Private

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00101
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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] 101

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00101] C-150527

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-101 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: Expired

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