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Title

Ottawa City, Canada West (Upper Town)

Online (1)

Arrangement structure

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Item (linked) part of

Charles Berkeley Powell fonds [graphic material, textual record, object] (R11188-0-4-E)

Bilingual equivalent

Ville d'Ottawa, Canada Ouest [Haute Ville]

Date(s)

1855

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Publisher

E. Whitefield
sold by: R. & C. Chalmers

Extent

1 print / estampe : tinted lithograph, printed in black with blue tint stone and handcoloured with watercolour on wove paper
Support: 101.300 x 62.600 cm
Image: cm

Language of material

English

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)

90: Open
No restrictions on access or on use for
reproduction or publication.

Graphic (art)
Copy negative C-000601

90: Open

Graphic (art)

90: Open

Volume
1 Item no. assigned by LAC 2

90: Open

Archival reference no.

R11188-2-8-E

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, acc. no. R11188-2
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Artist: Whitefield, Edwin, 1816-1892.

Additional information

Set: Whitefield's Original Views of North American Cities, no. 34

Availability of other formats note

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note

Exhibition title: History of Art and Artists of Ottawa and Surroundings, 1820-1920. Curators: Pierre Arpin, The Gallery at Arts Court, Ottawa, Ontario; 1993.06.29 - 1993.09.05.

Signatures and inscriptions

Inscribed. Dated.
Inscription: on the stone, t.: WHITEFIELD'S ORIGINAL VIEWS OF NORTH AMERICAN CITIES No. (o^ ) 34.; l.l.: DRAWN FROM NATURE BY E. WHITEFIELD; b.: Copyright Secured / OTTAWA CITY, CANADA WEST. / (LATE BYTOWN.) / View of the Uppertown, looking up the Ottawa River, From Government Hill. / Ottawa Published by E. Whitefield 1855. (Incomplete transcription)

Attributions and conjectures

After the artist Edwin Whitefield.

Varying form of title

Ottawa City, Canada West.

Subject heading

1. Ontario.
2. cityscape.
3. vue de ville.
4. GEOG - ONT., OTTAWA - PARTS OF CITY, UPPER TOWN.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

ICON89735

MIKAN no.

2837422