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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2008 Acquisition [graphic material, cartographic material, object, textual record]
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Record information Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2008 Acquisition [graphic material, cartographic material, object, textual record]
Date:ca. 1650-1940.Reference:R9266-6-2-EType of material:Art, Photographs, Maps and cartographic material, Textual materialFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:3830886Date(s):ca. 1650-1940.Place of creation:No place, unknown, or undeterminedExtent:ca. 210 prints : lithographs, etchings, engravings, wood engravings, serigraphs
94 maps : lithographs, engravings
42 watercolours : watercolour, pen and ink, pencil
22 publications : letterpress
20 portfolios of prints (ca. 525 lithographs, engravings and wood engravings)
13 paintings : oil
10 copperplates
4 albums (114 watercolours, 6 drawings, plus newspaper clipppings and ephemera)
3 portfolios of maps (text and lithographed maps)
2 sketchbooks (55 folios of watercolours, 48 folios of watercolour and pen and ink drawings)
2 albums (49 albumen and collodion photographs)
2 drawings : pen and ink
1 textual record : manuscript letter
1 object : marquetry pictureLanguage of material:EnglishScope and content:Series contains artwork and maps collected by Peter Winkworth over the span of his lifetime. This grouping represents the second major acquisition of Winkworth material, done by Library and Archives Canada in 2008.
This series consists of 13 oil paintings, including works by Clarence Gagnon and Frederick S. Coburn, and portraits by Roy-Audy and others; 26 watercolours and 2 drawings, including works by Clarence Gagnon, James Peachey, Peter Rindisbacher, George Heriot, Thomas Davies, Robert Bouchette, George Fisher, William Armstrong, and others, dating from the late 1760s to the 1920s, documenting most regions of Canada, but with a strength in views of Quebec; 6 watercolour albums or sketchbooks containing 260 watercolours and drawings; among these are albums by James Duncan (31 watercolours of Montreal and vicinity, dated ca. 1850); Maria Morris (27 watercolours of Canadian wildflowers dated ca. 1837); Fulford family (38 watercolours and drawings, as well as clippings, and other material, the Eastern Townships and Montreal, ca. 1850-1860); and William Rennie (24 watercolours of Newfoundland, dated 1882); as well as sketchbooks by George Heriot (55 folios of watercolours of Europe and Great Britain, ca. 1815-1820), and James Fox Bland (48 folios of views of Nova Scotia and the Crimea, ca. 1853-1856); more than 150 prints, including several rare views including Quebec City ca. 1750, but including works from the 17th to the 20th centuries, and by a diversity of artists, including George Heriot, William Eagar, Henry B. Laurence, Robert Wickenden, Herbert Raine, Robert Pilot, and others; 19 print albums or portfolios containing ca. 500 individual prints, including prints after John Richard Coke Smyth, Henry James Warre, Henry Buckton Laurence, Richard Short, Hervey Smyth, Thomas Davies, Cornelius Krieghoff, Robert Dudley, and other artists; a published set of Scenographic Americana, including twelve prints of British North America before the American revolution; 2 individual maps and several map publications, including a Thomas Wright multiple sheet map of the St. Lawrence River of 1807, a 19th century map of Newfoundland, as well as the 1872-1874 Boundary Commission maps report, a report on St. Lawrence shipping, and an 1881 county atlas by Belden Brothers; 2 albums of 19th century photographs by Alexander Henderson and William Notman and other photographers, totalling 49 photographs; a volume of Oxford prints published by Ackermann after Thomas Shotter Boys; 15 watercolours and 23 prints of Bermuda and the Bahamas; 92 maps and 35 prints as well as 1 watercolour relating to Sardinia and Italy; 1 manuscript letter from William Pitt to Hervey Smyth concerning General Wolfe; and 22 assorted 19th century tourist guides and city brochures, including Niagara Falls, Toronto, Kingston, the St. Lawrence, Montreal, Eastern Townships, and Quebec. There are also sheets of images from the Canadian Illustrated News, the Illustrated London News, the Graphic, and other illustrated periodicals.Additional name(s):- Artist: Peachey, James, fl. 1773-1797
- Artist: Duncan, James D., 1806-1881
- Artist: Rindisbacher, Peter, 1806-1834
- Artist: Warre, Henry James, Sir, 1819-1898
- Artist: Heriot, George, 1759-1839
- Artist: Laurence, Henry Buckton, 1842-1886
- Artist: Bland, James Fox
- Artist: Rennie, William F
- Artist: Morris, Maria, 1813-1875
- Photographer: Notman, William, 1826-1891
- Photographer: Henderson, Alexander, 1831-1913
Container note(s):4166 : Contains miscellaneous material found during the processing of the collection;it is mostly non-archival and has no commercial value.
4164 : copper plates
4163 : copper platesSource:Private -
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