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Québec from the Harbour

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Date:

1821

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2887644

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John Elliott Woolford collection

Québec from the Harbour
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1821

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : brown wash over pencil on wove paper
Support 21.400 x 30.500 cm
Image 21.400 x 30.700 cm
Secondary support 25.500 x 37.800 cm

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no language

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The album contains 44 individual drawings (two of which make up a panomara, acc. nos. 1979-9-1.1 & 1.2). The folio paper is blue-grey in colour. There is an engraved coat-of-arms glued to the inside of the front cover. It appears that four drawings have been removed from the album evidenced by titles on stubs followed by missing folios (see inscriptions for titles). The corner of one drawing removed from the album is still glued to a folio remnant (between folios 14 & 15)., January 1979 - In general the album is in good conditon. Many of the drawings have been cropped by the artist (?)., January 1979 - the drawing is laid down on three corners, one corner is lifted. The folio is badly damges lower edge. The l.r. corner of the drawing is turned.

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Artist: Woolford, John Elliott, 1778-1866

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General note:

Album: Woolford Album: American Sketches.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: The Dalhousie Repatriation. Curators: Marie Elwood, The Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia; 1986.01.28 - 1986.04.01 (the entire album)., Exhibition Title: A Place in History - Twenty Years of Acquiring Paintings, Drawings and Prints. Curator: Jim Burant, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1990.10.30-1991.03.31

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: Inscribed recto: u.c. "C Diamond" in pencil; u.r. inside the wall "Brown [?]" in pencil; Verso l.l. "Québec from the Harbour" in pencil.

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Quebec from the Harbour, 1821
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cityscape

vue de ville

Québec (Québec)

SUBJ. - Cityscape - General View of Québec - 1821
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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1979-009 PIC
00001.1
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
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Item no. assigned by LAC [00001.1] 00001.1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00001.1] C-099521

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1979-9-1.1 Source: Captain C. Broun Lindsay, Colstoun, Haddington, Scotland.
Copyright: Expired

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