Collection search - Old Pooley's Bridge, Ottawa

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Old Pooley's Bridge, Ottawa

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Item

Date:

1879

Reference:

Box number: OP-0756

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2905848

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Walter Chesterton fonds

Old Pooley's Bridge, Ottawa
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1879

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 painting / peinture : oil on canvas
Support 22.800 x 35.900 cm
Platemark 36.400 x 48.700 cm

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Inventory number is I-3., Taped down onto cardboard covering verso of canvas are two pages which provide a description of how the bridge was built and how the bridge received its name.

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Artist: Chesterton, Walter, 1845-1931

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Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in brush and beige oil paint over red oil paint, recto, l.l.: W.Chesterton/ AND (?) 1879; printed on plaque attached to frame, recto, l.c.: POOLEY'S BRIDGE/ BY W. CHESTERTON 1879/ PRESENTED BY MISS CHESTERTON/ - 1933 -; in pen and black ink on paper laid down on frame, verso, u.c.: "Old Poolies Bridgr (?) (sic)/ Ottawa (underlined)/ By Walter Chesterton -188... / given by his daughter/ Lilian S.Chesterton. 1933; photocopy, verso, c.: Photocopy of pp.8 & 9 from A History of Old Bytown 1876, Andrew Wilson of the Daily News.
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Ottawa (Ont.)

Architecture
Source:

Private

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1933-212 PIC
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access to be given through an art archivist

Box [1933-212]

[Consultation 90 Open]

OP-0756 Item no. assigned by LAC 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1933-212]

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C-003832 Item no. assigned by LAC 1

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1933-212-1
Copyright: Expired

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