Recherche dans la collection - The Dying Daughter, St. Martin, Ile Jésus

This item is mounted on folio 2, vol. IV, recto.

cited in Acland, p. 78

Copy transparency available: C-096919

Exhibition Title: A Place in History - Twenty Years of Acquiring Paintings, Drawings and Prints. Curator: Jim Burant, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1990.10.30-1991.03.31

Inscribed., Inscription: inscribed in pen and brown ink, on folio, recto, across b.: I lost no opportunity of conversing quietly with the people, and used to try to see them alone. I strolled into the / interior of one of the small Farm houses in St. Martin. The deep chimney, with the oven in the recess - The crucifix / on the wall - the priest of the print of the Assumption - the French steeples - the looking glass - and the bird cage tell in plain characters, / the tale of life to be here or elsewhere - the dying daughter is set by her mother at the open window. Rose plants are / on the window sill" (complete)

Sir Henry Wentworth Acland Collection, Sketches in North America; Volume IV: Montreal to London CW