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View from Belisle Hill, or Mt. Beloeil

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Item (Accession level)

Date:

August 13, 1844 - October 15, 1844

Reference:

Accession number: 1953-075 PIC, 00010, Box number: A174-02

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

2884990

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Warwick Collection

View from Belisle Hill, or Mt. Beloeil
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Date(s):

August 13, 1844 - October 15, 1844

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : pen, brush, and brown ink; brown and grey wash; all over pencil on wove paper
Support 22.200 x 32.100 cm
Image 22.200 x 32.100 cm
Secondary support 33.600 x 45.000 cm

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View taken from Beleisle (see below). The foreground shows a small body of water on the hill itself, with a heron flying in front. In the distance the flat land is visibly divided into strip farms. There are small settlements along the main road: houses and churches are visible., The following views all have similar secondary supports, and might have been pasted in the same album: 1953-75-3, -4, -5, -6, -7, -8, -10, -12, -13, and -14., The inscription suggests that this is not Seton's original sketch, but the more finished one that he worked up on October 15th., Beleisle might be Mt. Beloeil, the modern Mt. Saint-Hilaire in Rouville, or it could be Belisle Hill, in Terrebonne. Both are in Quebec., George Seton was a British military officer active in North America from April 14, 1844 to August 31, 1848. British officers were often trained in watercolour as a method of recording topography.

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Artist: Seton, George 1819-1905, attributed to

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General note:

Removed from: album: watercolour formerly mounted on album folio, now loose

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Dated., Inscription: in pencil on support verso, l.r.:Taken from the summit of Beleisle mountain/August 13th 1844./Copied Octr 15th 1844., Inscription: in pen and brown ink on secondary support recto, b. under image:Taken from the summit of Beleisle mountain, Inscription: in pen and brown ink on secondary support recto, l.r. under image:August 13th 1844., Inscription: formerly in pencil, now erased, on secondary support recto, l.r.:Taken from the Summit of Beleisle mountain/August 13th 1844/Copied Octr 15th 1844.

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Taken from the summit of Belisle [Beloeil] Mountain, August 13, 1844
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Québec

landscape

paysage

QUE., BELOEIL MOUNTAIN

QUE., EASTERN TOWNSHIPS
Source:

Private

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1953-075 PIC

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1953-075 PIC
00010
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Nil

Box [1953-075]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A174-02 Item no. assigned by LAC 10

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00010] C-001240

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1953-75-10
Copyright: Expired

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