Collection search - Outside view of the Harbour of St. John's

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Outside view of the Harbour of St. John's

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Date:

ca. 1811

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Item ID number:

2837168

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W.H. Coverdale collection of Canadiana

Outside view of the Harbour of St. John's
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Date(s):

ca. 1811

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil on wove paper
Image 12.400 x 22.400 cm

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no language

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entrance to St John's harbour

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Artist: Pocock, Nicholas, 1740 or 1741-1821

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General note:

According to Randall Davies's enlightening article, "Nicholas Pocock (1741-1821)" published in The Old Watercolour Society's Club 1927-1928, 5th Annual Volume (London, 1928, pp. 1-29), a catalogue of Messrs. Hodgson, on April 2, 1913, listed two pencil sketches of St. John's Harbour, Newfoundland, apparently engraved for The Naval Chronicle, for 1811 (vol. 26), , and two other views. This Coverdale watercolour is nearly identical in composition to the aquatint "Outside view of St. John's Harbour, Newfoundland," engraved by Baily after Pocock and published in The Naval Chronicle, for 1811 (vol. 26, July-December, plate CCCXLII, fac. p. 52).
For a copy of this aquatint see: 1973-18-205 (MIKAN 2948512)
There is a second pencil drawing with a similar theme at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England.

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Colour transparency available

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Exhibition title: W.H. Coverdale Collection of Canadiana. Curators: Michael Bell, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1973.06.22 - 1973.08.30, cat. no.: no. 22. Further venue: London Public Library and Art Museum, London, Ontario; 1973.08.16 - 1973.11.27., Further venue: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario; 1973.12.13 - 1974.01.30., Further venue: The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario; 1974.03.01 - 1974.03.30., Further venue: The Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario; 1974.09.01 - 1974.09.30., Further venue: Department of Fine Arts, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario; 1974.11.01 - 1974.11.30., Further venue: Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; 1975.02.01 - 1975.03.15., Further venue: Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick; 1975.03.15 - 1975.04.30., Further venue: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan; 1975.01.01 - 1975.01.30., Further venue: State University of New York, New York; 1976.09.11 - 1976.10.17., Further venue: Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum Spokane, Washington, D.C.; 1976.11.06 - 1976.12.05., Further venue: Rexburg College, Idaho; 1977.01.01 - 1977.01.30., Further venue: Colby College, Waterville, Maine; 1977.05.09 - 1977.06.08., Further venue: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; 1977.05.28 - 1977.06.26., Exhibition Title: St. John's Through the Artists' Eyes. Curators: Caroline Stone, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland; 1988.06.23 - 1988.07.31., Exhibition Title: 200th Anniversary Celebrations Judicature Act (Newfoundland) 1791-1991. Curator: Allan Clarke, Newfoundland Museum, St. John's, Newfoundland; 1991.11.01-1992.01.03.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in pencil, verso, c.: Outside of the Harbour/of St. John's Newfoundland N. Pocock.
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St. John's Harbour (N.L.)

Newfoundland and Labrador

SUBJ - SHIPS - TYPES - WARSHIPS

SUBJ - SHIPS - 19TH CENTURY

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1970-188 PIC
00643
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access through an art archivist. No restriction on use for reproduction or publication

Item no. assigned by LAC [00643] 643

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [19XX-XXX] C-040146

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1970-188-643
Copyright: Expired.

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