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Description found in Archives

Title

A View from Fort George Upper Canada, From Old Fort Niagara. 

Arrangement structure

Date(s)

1813

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Publisher

R. Ackermann

Extent

1 print / estampe : hand coloured aquatint on paper mounted on card
Support: 23.700 x 14.500 cm

Language of material

English

Scope and content

Image is a landscape view of Fort George, Upper Canada, seen across the water from Old Fort Niagara. On the right, an American flag is waving, and there are two figures in the foreground, one of which is a standing soldier in military uniform. Item is of unknown provenance. There is a note in manuscript pencil on the verso that reads "unframed April 1961".

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)
90: Open
No restrictions on access or on use for
reproduction or publication.
Graphic (art)
Copy negative C-000026
90: Open
Graphic (art)
90: Open
Volume
29 Item no. assigned by LAC 312
90: Open
Archival reference no.

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, acc. no. R13133-312
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Additional information

Copy negative number: C-000026 (?) Inventory number: II-4d

Physical condition note
Cardboard mount is cracked in bottom right corner.

Related materials
There are additional copies of this print in the Reford collection, acc. no. 1973-018.

Availability of other formats note
Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions
Inscribed.
Inscription: l/l E.W. in Locum deli.t. / A View of FORT GEORGE UPPER CANADA, From OLD FORT NIAGARA

Varying form of title

Subject heading

1. Ontario.
2. GEOG - U.S., N.Y., FORT NIAGARA.
3. GEOG - ONT., FORT GEORGE.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

MIKAN no.

2837535