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Halfway Houses on the Ice Road from Montreal to La Prairie

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

February 29, 1840

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2838536

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

Halfway Houses on the Ice Road from Montreal to La Prairie
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Date(s):

February 29, 1840

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil on wove paper, laid down
Image 18.000 x 30.500 cm
Secondary support 40.600 x 54.600 cm

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The image depicts four half-way houses on the ice road between Montreal and La Prairie. The wooden houses, with doors and small windows, are lined up along the edge of the road. On the left hand side of each house is a flagpole with a lantern handing over each door. Horse-drawn sleights are pulled up in front of them. In the distance, a city is visible with architectural elements visible. Thick dark clouds hover over the city., Lit: McCord 1993 #65., e-0012103-vd, On the Sotheby's inventory list, this work was attributed to Philip John Bainbrigge but there is no solid evidence on which to base that attribution.

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Artist: Unknown

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Alpha-numeric note:

Sotheby's inventory no. W13.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: The Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana Early Impressions of Quebec. Curators: Jim Burant, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2006.05.16 - 2006.09.05.
Further venue: Musée des Beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec; 2007.01.20 - 2007.03.18.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: in pen, recto, l.c. on label glued to secondary support: Half way Houses on the Ice Road / from Montreal to La. Prairie 29th Feb. / 1840. These houses are fixed in / runners and are drawn by Horses / on to the Ice Road half way between / Montreal and La Prairie for Trevellers / to stop at and refresh themselves. / They have lanterns over the doors.; in pencil, recto, l.r. on image in later hand: 1840
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Québec

Architecture
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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00531
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
No restriction on access or on use for publication or reproduction.

Item no. assigned by LAC [R9266] 531

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00531] C-150298

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-531 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: Expired

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