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Chute d'eau à Niagara dans le Haut Canada

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Item

Date:

[1796]

Reference:

Box number: A313-02

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2877265

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W.H. Coverdale collection of Canadiana

Chute d'eau à Niagara dans le Haut Canada
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Date(s):

[1796]

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 print / estampe : etching hand-coloured
Image 26.000 x 37.800 cm

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Laid down. Margins trimmed. Illegible watermark on the paper bearing image, u.l. and partially legible watermark on mount, middle left: "-Riaan Rogge" [?] with a fleur-de-lis on middle right. Loss at u.l. corner.

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Artist: Fuseli, Henry 1741-1825

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Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: Recto, inscribed in brown ink, in contemporary hand,, bottom edge on mount: "Chute d'eau à Niagara dans le haut Canada- Le Lac Erié qui est de 300 pieds anglais plus haut que le lac Ontario dans lequel il se jette: cette chute est fort rapide, presque perpendiculaire en plusieurs endroits. Le Lac Erié a près de la chute 2220 pieds de largeurs- la pente de 7 1/4 [en] milles, la chute a une hauteur de 273 pieds: à 20 milles on en peut entendre le bruit." Verso, inscribed in brown ink, in contemporary hand, on mount, a German description bearing date" 6(..?..) 1796"
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Niagara, Chutes du (N.Y. et Ont.)

landscape

Indian

paysage

SUBJ. - Aboriginal, Tribes : Iroquoian/Iroquois - Confederacy

Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
Source:

Private

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1970-188 PIC
01029
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access through an art archivist. No restriction on use for reproduction or publication

Box [1970-188]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A313-02 Item no. assigned by LAC 1029

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1970-188]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-041655 Item no. assigned by LAC 1029

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1970-188-1029 W.H. Coverdale Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: Expired

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