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Entrance to Quiddy Viddy Harbour

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Date:

August 1824

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2838106

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

Entrance to Quiddy Viddy Harbour
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Date(s):

August 1824

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil on wove paper mounted on grey backing
Support 29.600 x cm
Image 29.600 x 24.600 cm
Secondary support 39.500 x 32.900 cm

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Subject depicts a body of water surrounded by a hills and rock. A wooden bridge is located in the foreground of the image and is set up to facilitate travel between the shore and an wooden architectural structure built above the water. A man is walking on the bridge. Along the shore line are several wooden structures, possibly boathouses, with small boats floating in the vicinity. Another architectural structure is built up on the hill in the background., Item is glued to a secondary support., Sir Charles Chichester was part of the 2nd battalion of the 60th regiment and served in America during 1821 - 1824. He returned to North America from 1838 - 1839 and returned again in 1843. Charles died in Canada.

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Artist: Chichester, Charles, Sir, 1795-1847

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Alpha-numeric note:

Sotheby's inventory no. W162

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: The Peter Winkworth Collections of Canadiana: Rocky Shores and Stormy Seas- The Atlantic Region. Curator: Jim Burant, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2006.03.05-04.22.2007.

Further Venue: Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; 2006.03.05-2006.05.14.

Further Venue: The Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick; 2006.06.16-2006.09.03.

Further Venue: The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's Newfoundland; 2007.02.02-2007.04.22.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: in ink, verso: Entrance to Quiddy Viddy Newfoundland / St. Johns August 1824 / C. Chichester / Lt 60 regt
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Newfoundland and Labrador

landscape
Source:

Private

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00095
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
No restriction on access or on use for publication or reproduction.

Item no. assigned by LAC [R9266] 95

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00095] C-150425

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-95 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: expired

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