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Scenes on the Ottawa

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Date:

n.d.

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Box number: A204-02

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2964500

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National Archives of Canada. Drawings and Watercolours Collection

Scenes on the Ottawa
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Date(s):

n.d.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing / dessin : ink & pencil with watercolour
Support 22.900 x 33.700 cm

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This item bears 3 drawings (front, back and centre). The item seems to be the centre pages from a sketchbook, it is folded in half. There is a small area of watercolour used on the centre page., The drawings front page has badly stained/discoloured edges (right and lower sides). The sheet is folded in half indicating that it came from a sketchbook.

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Artist: Whitefield, Edwin, 1816-1892

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Inscribed., Inscription: Inscribed recto: front page u.r. "From the Island near Mr. Egan's Mill, at the Chats / looking down" in pen & ink; u.r. edge "This points to Habor"in pen & ink; l.r. "Oak green with red edges / & stem; lower leaves / all crimson [in pen & ink] / lower leaves all / crimson [in pencil]"; l.r. edge "nearly white / blackened, from / burning / grey / grey / grey" in pen & ink; centre "all woods [in pen & ink] all trees [in pencil] all woods / N. West Point [in pen & ink]"; l.c. "Part of this plant / orange yellow [in pen & ink] / orange yellow [in pencil]; u.l. "Scenes on the Ottawa" in pencil; u.l. edge "Quis lies here" in pencil; left centre "grass / grass" in pencil; l.l. "Oak, deep red [in pen & ink] / deep red / oak deep red [in pencil]"; centre pages - left centre "Spray [in pen & ink] / one mass of / foam [in pencil] / foam / one mass of foam & spray [in pen & ink] / all white / snow / foam / white [in pencil] / foam, as white as driven snow [in pen & ink]; u.r. "Falls of the Ottawa, at Ottawa City" in pen & ink; u.c. "Hull Mountain"; Back page l.l. "sand hills" in pencil; u.r. "very distant / street / Flats" in pencil
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landscape

paysage

SUBJ. - Landscape : Miscellaneous Scenes on The Ottawa River
Source:

Private

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1974-052 PIC
00036
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [1974-052]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A204-02 Item no. assigned by LAC 36

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1974-52-36 Source: purchased from Warda Drummond at Christie's (Canada)

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