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City of Ottawa, Canada West

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Item

Date:

ca. 1859

Reference:

R11188-3-X-E, Volume number: 2

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2837391

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Charles Berkeley Powell fonds

City of Ottawa, Canada West
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Date(s):

ca. 1859

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Place:

Ottawa

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Place of printing:

New York

Extent:

1 print : hand-coloured lithograph

Language of material:

English

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This colour version of the Stent and Laver print depicts Ottawa before the Parliament Buildings were built. A later version of the print (C-002812) has the Parliament Buildings represented.

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Artist: Stent & Laver (firm)

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General note:

Initial cataloguing date (on verso): 12/2/49.

Note on the state of conservation:

Some discolouration, water mark at top left. Crack in paper, upper centre.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available.

Exhibitions note:

Venue: Displayed in the Office of Mr. A.D.P. Heeney Under-Secretary of State - Long Term Loans, Ottawa, Ontario; 1949.05.10 - [1966?]., Exhibition title: We'll all become stories - A Survey of Art in the Ottawa-Gatineau Region. Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario; 2018.04.28 - 2018.09.16.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: recto, l.l.: Published by Mess'rs Stent & Laver, Architects &c. Ottawa C.W.
l.c.: Copy Right secured in Canada and the United States. / CITY OF OTTAWA [coat of arms, "quiet study"] CANADA WEST. / To His Excellency the Right Honorable Sir Edmund Walker Head Baronet &c. &c. Governor General of British North America. This View of the City of Ottawa / is by permission most respectfully dedicated by his Excellency's obliged and very obedient servants / Stent & Laver.
l.r.: Sarony Major & Knapp Lith. 449 Broadway N.Y.
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Ottawa (Ont.)

Ontario

cityscape
Source:

Private
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
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Volume [R11188]

[Consultation 90 Open]

2 Item no. assigned by LAC 3

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [0000-000] C-002813

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [19XX-XXX] C-002813

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada / acc. no. R11188-3 / e011154421
Copyright: Expired

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