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Description found in Archives

Title

Arrangement structure

Date(s)

ca. 1858-61

Place

New York

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Publisher

Stent & Laver

Extent

1 print : lithograph

Language of material

English

Scope and content

Uncoloured landscape view of the city of Ottawa. This is a first state of the print, showing the city without the Parliament buildings.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)
90: Open
Volume
59 Item no. assigned by LAC 397
90: Open
Archival reference no.

Terms of use

Copyright : expired Credit : Library and Archives Canada, R13133-397

Additional name(s)

Additional information

Copy negative no. C-002813 is associated with this print (previously labelled on the verso), though this number seems to belong to the colour version (MIKAN no. 2837391).

"Found in the Bindery, 1952" (on verso).

Physical condition note
Very fragile. Print is in poor condition, with severe cracks in the paper at the top and centre (taped in the centre). Print is dirty and discoloured, and there is a hole in the upper centre.

Signatures and inscriptions
Recto, l.l.: Published by Mess'rs Stent & Laver, Architects &c. Ottawa C.W. l.c.: Copy Right secured in Canada and the United States. / CITY OF OTTAWA [coat of arms, "quiet study"] CANADA WEST. / To His Excellency the Right Honorable Sir Edmund Walker Head Bart. K.C.B. & & Governor General of British North America. This View of the City of Ottawa / is by permission most respectfully dedicated by his Excellency's obliged and very obedient servants / Stent & Laver. l.r.: Sarony Major & Knapp Lith. 449 Broadway N.Y.

Subject heading

1. cityscape.
2. Ottawa (Ont.)

Source

Private

MIKAN no.

3997894