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London, Canada West

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Item

Date:

1849

Reference:

Box number: A006-01

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2912700

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Sir James Edward Alexander fonds

Drawings, watercolours, and prints

London, Canada West
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Date(s):

1849

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 print / estampe
Image 12.400 x 19.700 cm

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View of London with factories, roads and houses. Dundas street runs down the middle of the city, along with the McCormack biscuit factory, which was later torn down to build the new City Hall and square. The stumps in the foreground were later cleared to build Federal Square. This print was published in Sir James Alexander's book, L' Acadie, or Seven Years Explorations in British America, (London, 1849).

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Artist: Alexander, James Edward, Sir, 1803-1885

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Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: In black print, recto, b.: London, Canada West/ London, Henry Colburn 1849.
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Ontario

cityscape

vue de ville
Source:

Private

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00001
1992-491 DAP
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation99 Closed pending processing]
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Box [1992-491]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A006-01 Item no. assigned by LAC 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1992-491-1
Copyright: Expired

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