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Railway accident on the Desjardins Canal drawbridge, 12 March 1857

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Date:

March 12, 1857

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R9266

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Item ID number:

2838429

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

Railway accident on the Desjardins Canal drawbridge, 12 March 1857
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Date(s):

March 12, 1857

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing : pencil on wove paper
Image 17.100 x 22.400 cm

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no language

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Subject depicts a pencil sketch of a high suspension bridge and a lower broken bridge. A train car is vertical in the water below the broken bridge. Numerous figures in foreground, on parts of the broken bridge and on the higher suspension bridge. Bits of the train are floating in the water., Condition: page was once folded, This sketch does not correspond precisely with Gregory prints of the subject., Provenance; Sotheby's #222 (date?), Preservation copy photographs, both b&w and colour transparency, are held in the Loans and Exhibitions area of Preservation Branch.
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Artist: Simpson, William, 1823-1899

Artist: Hamilton, fl. 1857
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Sotheby's inventory no. W334

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: The Peter Winkworth Collections of Canadiana: Loyal She Remains- Ontario. Curator: Jim Burant, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2005.09.17 -2006.10.22.

Further Venue: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario; 2005.09.17- 2005.11.27.

Further Venue: Art Gallery of Windor, Windsor, Ontario; 2006.02.11-2006.03.26.

Further Venue: Museum London, London, Ontario; 2006.08.19-2006.10.22.

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Inscription: in pencil, recto, l.l.: W. Simpson; in ink, verso, u.l. to l.r.: The Within is a very correct sketch of the / locality of the Desjardins Canal drawbridge at about / 8 o'clock P.M. of Thursday the 12th instant say 2 1/2 / hours subsequent to the precipitation of the Toronto / Evening train into the Canal / W.J. Moore / Mayor / Hamilton / March 16th 1859; in ink, verso b.: The Within, was taken from the ice on Burlington Bay to the Eastward / of the drawbridge by moonlight.

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Private

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00387
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Item no. assigned by LAC [R9266] 387

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Copy negative [00387] C-150489

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, ACC. R9266-387 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: expired

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