A View of St. John's and Fort Townsend

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A View of St. John's and Fort Townsend

Item ID number:

2833983

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

10-25 September 1786

Reference:

R5434

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2833983

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Logbook of H.M.S. Pegasus

A View of St. John's and Fort Townsend
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Date(s):

10-25 September 1786

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour, pen and ink wash over pencil on paper.
Support 37.800 x 24.800 cm
Image 12.100 x 35.900 cm

Language of material:

no language

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Artist: Meres, James S., 1766 or 1767-1836

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General Note:

Removed from: sketchbook: "The Log Book of His Majesty's Ship Pegasus" p.107, Reproduced in Painters in a New Land (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Ltd.,1973), p. 25.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription, b.: A View of the Town.

Related material:

See Robertson, No. 2466., For a discussion of settlement, fisheries and fortifications at St. John's, see "General Return of Newfoundland Fishery for the year 1786..." (P.A.C., C.O. 194, Vol. 36, pp. 253 and 274 [microfilm]).

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St. John's (N.L.)

Newfoundland and Labrador

Fort Townsend (St. John's, N.L.)
Source:

Private
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Graphic (art)

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Physical access through Manuscript Division MG 23, J 7, as items are in Album. No restrictions on use for publication or reproduction

Copy negative [R5434] C-002545

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