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Title

View in the Basin of Mines, Nova Scotia. 

Online
 (1)

Arrangement structure

Date(s)

June 22, 1807

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil on wove paper mounted on coated wove paper mounted on grey folio
Support: 15.700 x 11.300
Image: 18.400 x 13.600
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-012731
Restrictions not set
Graphic (art)
99: Closed pending processing
Box
A093-01 Item no. assigned by LAC 15
Restrictions not set
Other accession no.
00015
1989-471 X DAP

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1989-471-15
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Additional information

Removed from: Album: "Drawings - Heriot"

Availability of other formats note
Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions
Inscribed. Signed. Dated.
Inscription: in brown ink, verso, t.: View in the Basin of Mines. N. Scotia; b.: Drawn on the spot by Geo Heriot. 22[d] June 1807; in pencil, fol. 23 recto (p. 15), l.r.: Basin of Mines / G. Heriot I-15

Subject heading

1. Nova Scotia.
2. landscape.
3. Minas Basin (N.S.)

Source

Private

Other system control no.

MIKAN no.

2836523