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Prescott Mill Opposite Osnaburgh on the St Lawrence

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

September 15, 1846.

Reference:

R10919-4-4-E

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3022733

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Captain Michael Seymour Fonds

Prescott Mill Opposite Osnaburgh on the St Lawrence
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

September 15, 1846.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour over pencil on wove paper.
Support 17.700 x 25.600 cm
Secondary support 29.000 x 28.100 cm

Language of material:

English

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Image depicting a large waterway with a steamboat and a mill in the background and a large timber raft 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 34.

Note on the state of conservation:

Work is in fairly good condition. Glue used to paste the image to the album page has traversed the paper and left stains on all four corners. The secondary support is brown around the edges.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Dated., Inscription: in pencil, recto l.l.: Prescott [illegible] opposite Osnaburgh / where the Patriots landed 1837 / Sep 15; l.r.: Sep 15th ["th" is in superscript] 1846; in brown ink, mount recto l.c.: Prescott Mill opposite Osnaburgh. on the St ["t" is in superscript] Lawrence Canada Sep 15 1846; u.r.: 34; (complete transcription)
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landscape

paysage
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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00004
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Item no. assigned by LAC [R10919] 4

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, R10919-4
Copyright: Expired

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