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Niagara Falls

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Date:

September 15-17, 1860

Reference:

Box number: BK-218

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2859666

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Sir Henry Wentworth Acland fonds

Sketches in North America

Volume V - Sarnia, United States and Home

Niagara Falls
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

September 15-17, 1860

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour over pencil with white and blue chalk on blue wove paper
Support 11.800 x 37.000 cm
Secondary support 29.700 x 24.800 cm

Language of material:

no language

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A watercolour and chalk study of the two sets of Falls

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Artist: Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900

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Physical description note:

This item is mounted on folio 13, vol. V, recto.

Availability of other formats note:

Copy transparency available: C-128551

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed., Inscription: inscribed in pen and brown ink, on folio, recto, across b.: The American fall:Cave of Winds Goat Island. The Horse Shoe Fall / This sketch (from the Ferry) shows the relative position, and proportions of the two falls. The Americal / is about 1000 feet across. The Horse Shoe about 2000 - Height about 150 feet (complete)

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Sir Henry Wentworth Acland Collection, Sketches in North America; Volume V: Sarnia, United States and Home
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Ontario

landscape

paysage

Waterfalls

Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)

Visits of state Canada 1860

Visites officielles Canada 1860
Source:

Private

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1986-007 PIC
00204
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access restricted. Documents require special handling because of fragility.

Box [1986-007]

[Consultation 90 Open]

BK-218 Item no. assigned by LAC 204

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1986-007] C-128551

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1986-7-204
Copyright: Expired

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