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Lachine, Lower Canada

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Item

Date:

September 12, 1846.

Reference:

R10919-1-9-E

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3022730

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Captain Michael Seymour Fonds

Lachine, Lower Canada
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

September 12, 1846.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 drawing : pencil on wove paper.
Support 17.700 x 25.100 cm
Secondary support 29.000 x 37.800 cm

Language of material:

English

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Image depicting a homestead on the banks of the St. Lawrence. The view includes a fairly detailed representation of a house and adjoining buildings. The land in front of the house bustles with activity: women cooking, children playing, people driving carriages and carts, etc. A raft seems to be floating on the water in the foreground., Capt. Michael Seymour was an officer on the HMS Vindictive. He sailed to Halifax in 1845.
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Artist: Seymour, Michael, Sir, 1802-1887

Bookseller: Maggs Bros
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General note:

Removed from: Album: This item is part of a sketchbook which was dismantled. It carries page number 29.

Note on the state of conservation:

The work is in fairly good condition. Glue applied to the four corners of the support has traversed the paper and created noticeable stains. The secondary support is brown around the edges and slightly frayed.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Dated., Inscription: in pencil, recto l.r.: Lachine Sept: 12th ["th" is in superscript] Lr ["r" is in superscript] Canada -; in brown ink, mount recto l.c.: Lachine. near Montreal. on the St ["t" is in superscript] Lawrence. Canada. Sep 12th ["th" is in superscript] 1846.; u.r.; 29; (complete transcription)
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Québec

Architecture
Source:

Private

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00001
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Item no. assigned by LAC [R10919] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, R10919-1
Copyright: Expired

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