Collection search - Part of Montreal from the Parade

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Part of Montreal from the Parade

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Item

Date:

1821

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2887664

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John Elliott Woolford collection

Part of Montreal from the Parade
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1821

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing / dessin : brown wash over pencil on wove paper
Support 22.800 x 33.500 cm
Secondary support 25.500 x 37.800 cm

Language of material:

no language

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The album contains 44 individual drawings (two of which make up a panorama, acc. nos. 1979-9-1.1 & 1.2). The folio paper is blue-grey in colour. There is an engraved coat-of-arms glued to the inside of the front cover. It appears that fourdrawings have been removed from the album evidenced by titles on stubs followed by missing folios (see inscriptions for titles). The corner of one drawing removed from the album is still glued to a folio remnant (between folios 14 & 15)., January 1979 - in general the album is in good condition. The cover and binding are worn and the folio edges are damaged. Many of the drawings have been cropped by the artist (?)., The drawing is mounted in an album., January 1979 - the drawing is laid down on all four corners and is badly soiled.

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Artist: Woolford, John Elliott, 1778-1866

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General note:

Removed from: album: sketch mounted with glue on folio 20, recto

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: Mont Royal- Ville-Marie: vues et plans anciens de Montréal. Curators: McCord Museum, Montréal, Québec; 1992.05.09 - 1992.08.01. Further venue: Courtauld Institute, London, England; 1993.01.25 - 1993.03.08.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: Inscribed recto: folio 18 l.c. "Part of Montréal from the parade" in black ink.

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Part of Montreal from the Parade, 1821
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Québec

cityscape

vue de ville

Montréal (Québec)

SUBJ. - Cityscape : Depicting Part of Montréal From The Parade - 1821
Source:

Private

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1979-009 PIC
00016
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
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Item no. assigned by LAC [00016] 16

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00016] C-099544

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1979-9-16 Source: Captain C. Broun Lindsay, Colstoun, Haddington, Scotland.
Copyright: Expired

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Date modified:: 2024-04-09