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The Falls and a Lookout Point at Niagara

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Item (Accession level)

Date:

June 26, 1844

Reference:

Accession number: 1953-075 PIC, 00006, Box number: A174-02

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2884991

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Warwick Collection

The Falls and a Lookout Point at Niagara
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Date(s):

June 26, 1844

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : brush and brown ink, grey and brown wash, all over pencil on wove paper
Support 32.500 x 23.300 cm
Image 32.500 x 23.300 cm
Secondary support 45.000 x 33.600 cm

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no language

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An unusual view of Niagara Falls, showing two of the falls. The viewer is almost at eye level with the top of the falls, looking sideways at the closest one. In the left foreground, at the edge of the picture, there is an embankment which could be a look out point or the porch of a house. There are two males standing on it, one of whom is looking out at the farthest falls., In the background there are a few large houses visible., George Seton was a British Officer active in North America from April 14th, 1844 to August 31st, 1848. It is apparent from other inscriptions that Seton frequently finished his sketches at a later date., The following works have similar secondary supports and may have been removed from the same album: 1953-75-3, -4, -5, -6, -7, -8, -10, -12, -13, and -14.

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Artist: Seton, George 1819-1905, attributed to

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General note:

Removed from: album: watercolour formely mounted on album folio, now loose

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Dated., Inscription: in pen and brown ink on support recto, l.l., over image:June 26th 1844, Inscription: in pencil on support recto, l.l., under washes:June 26th 1844, Inscription: in pen and brown ink on secondary support recto, b. under image:The Falls of Niagara, Inscription: l.r. under image:June 26th 1844.

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The Falls of Niagara
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Niagara, Chutes du (N.Y. et Ont.)

Ontario

activity

activité

Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
Source:

Private

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1953-075 PIC

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1953-075 PIC
00006
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Nil

Box [1953-075]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A174-02 Item no. assigned by LAC 6

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00006] C-001236

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1953-75-6
Copyright: Expired

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