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Title

Presqu'isle, St. John's River, July 1807. 

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Item (linked) part of

George Heriot collection [graphic material] (R13927-0-0-E)

Bilingual equivalent

Presqu'île, rivière Saint-Jean, juillet 1807

Date(s)

July 1807

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 watercolour / aquarelle : blue, grey and black wash over pencil on laid paper mounted on wove paper mounted on grey folio
Support: 28.200 x 19.100
Image: 25.300 x 17.700
Secondary support: 36.200 x 26.100

Scope and content

- bound navy blue leather cover with embossed and gold design borders (27.0 x 38.0 x 4.0 cm); brown marbled endpapers which attach first and last folios; 87 folios, 26 bearing images on the recto (fol. 20 bears an image on the verso as well); no title page; spine of album reads: DRAWINGS / - / HERIOT; inscriptions accompanying certain works appear in l.r. of paper mounts or l.r. of folio pages; all images have been removed from album for conservation.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)
99: Closed pending processing
No restrictions on access or on use for
reproduction or publication.
Graphic (art)
Copy negative C-012724
Restrictions not set
Graphic (art)
99: Closed pending processing
Box
A093-01 Item no. assigned by LAC 8
Restrictions not set
Other accession no.
00008
1989-471 X DAP

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1989-471-8
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Artist: Heriot, George, 1759-1839.

Additional information

Removed from: Album: "Drawings - Heriot"

Availability of other formats note
Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note
Exhibition title: Image of Canada / Visage du Canada. Curators: Michael Bell, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1972.08.10 - 1972.09.30, cat. no.: no. 54. Further venue: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec; 1972.08.10 - 1972.09.30.
Further venue: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario; 1972.11.16 - 1973.01.13.
Further venue: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan; 1973.02.04 - 1973.02.24.
Further venue: Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba; 1973.03.19 - 1973.04.22.
Further venue: Glenbow Alberta Institute, Calgary, Alberta; 1973.10.01 - 1973.10.31.
Further venue: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Colombia; 1973.12.01 - 1973.12.31.
Further venue: Victoria Art Gallery, Victoria, British Colombia; 1974.01.15 - 1974.02.15.
Further venue: Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland; 1974.04.01 - 1974.04.30.
Further venue: Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick; 1974.05.15 - 1974.06.15.
Further venue: Confederation Centre, Charlottetown, P.E.I.; 1974.07.01 - 1974.08.30.
Further venue: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia; 1974.09.15 - 1974.10.01.
Further venue: International Exhibition Foundation, Washington, D.C.; 1975.

Signatures and inscriptions
Inscribed. Signed. Dated.
Inscription: in brown ink, recto, l.r.: Presq' Isle S' John's River; verso, t.: Presqu Isle - S' John's River July 1807; in pencil, mount recto, l.r.: C2899; in pencil, fol. 16 recto (p.8), l.r.: G. Heriot I-8

Subject heading

1. New Brunswick.
2. landscape.
3. GEOG - N.B., ST. JOHN RIVER, PRESQU'ILE.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

ICON50089

MIKAN no.

2836515