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American side, Niagara Falls

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Item

Date:

1860-1861

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3017631

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

Aberdeen Album, "Foreign Sketches"

American side, Niagara Falls
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1860-1861

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour, touches of gouache over pencil on prepared wove paper, laid down
Image 22.500 x 28.300 cm
Secondary support 46.200 x 37.000 cm

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Subject depicts the American side of Niagara Falls and Bridal Veil Falls, seen from America. There is mist rising from the falls and some small figures on the left bank., The underdrawing in pencil is very apparent in this painting.

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Artist: Head, Edmund Walker, Sir, 1805-1868

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General note:

album: Lady Aberdeen Album, "Foreign Sketches" folio 8.

Alpha-numeric note:

Sotheby's inventory no. W707

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: in pencil, recto of secondary support, l.r. of image: Sir E. Head. 1860-61.
Subject heading:

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landscape

paysage
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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03904
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation99 Closed pending processing]
No restriction on access or on use for publication or reproduction.

Item no. assigned by LAC [R9266] 3904

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-3904 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: expired / périmé

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