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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana [graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

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Date:

ca. 1830-2008.

Reference:

2009-00120-6

BAN no.:

2009-00120-6

Type of material:

Art, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3829692

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Date(s):

ca. 1830-2008.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 scrapbook: 522 prints (engravings and lithographs); various dimensions.
1 scrapbook: 11 watercolours, 54 drawings, 1 lithograph; various dimensions.
1 scrapbook: 3 drawings, 2 albumen photographs, 56 engravings, 27 lithographs; various dimensions.
ca. 150 publications.

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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This portion of the Winkworth library contained many books about Canadian art, which arrived in a total of 7 boxes. The publications include a full set of Colin S. MacDonald's Dictionary of Canadian Artists, copies of various books by J. Russell Harper, David Silcox's book on Tom Thomson, various other Canadian art monographs, as well as annual reports, periodicals, and some sales catalogues, mostly from Sothebys from the 1970s onwards, some of which are annotated.

Also included in this lot were three scrapbooks. The first was put together by the family of George Tate, an English builder who seems to have been in Canada from ca. 1858-1863, when he was in charge of the construction of a parish church in Yorkville, north of Toronto. Tate was also the builder of the Don Jail. The scrapbook contains a lithographic presentation plate to George Tate, 11 drawings and watercolours with Spanish themes, 30 watercolours and drawings related to English life, and most interestingly, 8 watercolours and 16 drawings, mostly of Toronto street scenes and a couple of interiors, which are in some cases quite beautiful.

The second scrapbook seems to relate to an English family named Oliver, since there are three original drawings by Catherine and Anne Oliver dating from the 1820s and 1830s, as well as numerous English prints and views of towns and cities (total 60). There are also 23 lithographs relating to a trip to North America - including views in New York, Albany, Catskills, and Niagara Falls, and 5 wood engarvings of London, Ontario, which are annotated with notes on the reverse of two of the prints that indicate "our book store", "our music store" etc. There is a James Oliver resident in London in 1858, who may be the individual who compiled this scrapbook.

Finally there is a third scrapbook containing 522 small engravings of English city, town, harbour and architectural views, which has some interest in terms of architectural history and urban development.
Provenance:

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Bloomsbury Auctions (London)

Creator: Tate, George
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Custodial history:

Lot 7 of Bloomsbury Auction October 2, 2008; lot consigned by the Winkworth family, as indicated in the online sales catalogue.

Source:

Private

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R9266-0-1-E
R9266-460-2-E
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