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Entrance to Toronto

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Item

Date:

1840

Reference:

R13133-318-5-E

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2837599

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Canadian Historical Prints and Watercolours Collection

Sketches in the Canadas by John Coke Smyth

Entrance to Toronto
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1840

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Place:

London (England):

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Place of printing:

London (England):

Extent:

1 print / estampe : lithograph, printed in black with beige tint stone, handcoloured with watercolour
Support 28.000 x 37.300 cm

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Colour lithograph showing the harbour entrance to Toronto, with steamboats on the water.
As noted in the artist file, this item is "on loan to othe High Commissioner in London, since May 1952."

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Artist: Smyth, John Richard Coke, 1808-1882

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General note:

Set: Sketches in the Canadas, dedicated to the Earl of Durham, Plate 21
Inventory number: II-21a (c. 2)
Copy negative number: C-001023

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: Hung in the Canadian High Commission London England, 1952 for an indefinite period.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: in the plate, recto, l.r.: ENTRANCE TO TORONTO.; (Complete transcription)

Related material:

For another copy of this print, see acc. no. 1989-514-42X. This is inventory number II-21a (c. 1).
Subject heading:

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Ontario

Transportation

Toronto Harbour (Ont.)

transport

SUBJ - SHIPS - TYPES - STEAMBOATS
Source:

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Copy negative C-001023

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, acc. no. R13133-305
Copyright: Expired

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