Collection search - Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Landing Place of the MacKay-Bennette Dover Bay Cable

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Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Landing Place of the MacKay-Bennette Dover Bay Cable

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Item

Date:

May 22, 1884

Reference:

R11546

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3028655

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Henry Ash collection

Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Landing Place of the MacKay-Bennette Dover Bay Cable
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Date(s):

May 22, 1884

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing / dessin : pencil on wove paper
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Pencil sketch depicting a string of boats laying the final lengths of the Cable. A large crowd of people is amassed on the beach before a small house., Verso carries a handwritten description of the colours that would appear on the image depicted on the recto. Ex.: "Cable house: greenish window + door frames, grey front, red roof..." Basic measurements for the cable house are also inscribed.

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Artist: Ash, Henry, flourished 1879-1900

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Private

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00026
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Graphic (art)

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Item no. assigned by LAC [R11546] 26

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