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Fort Niagara

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Date:

1821

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2887695

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John Elliott Woolford collection

Fort Niagara
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Date(s):

1821

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing / dessin : brown wash over pencil on wove paper
Support 23.500 x 34.500 cm
Secondary support 25.500 x 37.800 cm

Language of material:

no language

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The album contains 44 individual drawings (two of which make up a panorama, acc. nos. 1979-9-1.1 & 1.2). The folio paper is blue-grey in colour. There is an engraved coat-of-arms glued to the inside of the front cover. It appears that four drawings have been removed from the album evidenced by titles on stubs followed by missing folios (see inscriptions for titles). The corner of one drawing removed from the album is still glued to a folio remnant (between folios 14 & 15)., January 1979 - in general the album is in good condition. The cover and binding are worn and the folio edges are damaged. Many of the drawings have been cropped by the artist (?)., The drawing is mounted in an album and has ruled pencil lines right, left and top edges., January 1979 - the drawing is laid down on all sides and is badly stained l.r. and u.l. It also has a series of small tears l.c., Label on cover of album : American / Sketches in black ink., TITLES ON STUBS : in black ink, stub between ffolios 33 & 34 : From the Bottom of Canadian Fall of Niagaras 8 & 9 : Fall of Montmorency from the bottom; in black ink, second stub between ffolios 33 & 34 : From the Bottom of Canadian Fall of Niagaras 8 & 9 : Fall of Montmorency from the Road Caday to Cooks; in black ink, stub between ffolios 33 & 34 : From the Bottom of Canadian Fall of Niagara 14 & 15 : Near the Fall of La Chaudière; in black ink, stub between folios 33 & 34 : From the Bottom of Canadian Fall of Niagara

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Artist: Woolford, John Elliott, 1778-1866

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General note:

Removed from: album: sketch mounted with glue on folio 35, recto

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: Inscribed recto: u.r. "13" in pencil; l.l. "beach" in pencil; u.l. "rather too high" in pencil; on folio 33 l.c. "Fort Niagara" in black ink; c. right edge "fort Nia[ara cropped] / from W.S.[W.? cropped] / U.S." in pencil.

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Fort Niagara, 1821
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Ontario

SUBJ. - Architecture : Depicting Fort Niagara - 1821

Architecture
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Private

Other accession no.:

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1979-009 PIC
00031
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
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Item no. assigned by LAC [00031] 31

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00031] C-099562

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1979-9-31 Source: Captain C. Broun Lindsay, Colstoun, Haddington, Scotland.
Copyright: Expired

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