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Title

The Union-Suspension-Bridge, Ottawa River, Bytown.

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Bilingual equivalent

Le pont suspendu Union, rivière des Outaouais, Bytown

Date(s)

1844

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour with pen and ink and gouache on buff wove paper laid down to linen backing
Support: 71.800 x 43.800 cm (sheet)

Scope and content

This is listed as Rubidge I-2.
Hand-drawn inscription is made to look like a printed inscription.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)

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

Graphic (art)
Copy negative C-005040

90: Open

Graphic (art)

90: Open

Item no. assigned by LAC
9-1

90: Open

Other accession no.

1999-00513 DAP
9-1

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1999-00513-9-1
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Artist: Rubidge, Frederick Preston, 1806-1897.

Additional information

Availability of other formats note

Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions

Inscription: inscribed recto c.l., in pen and black ink: Samuel Keefer. Engineer. ; c.r.: Sketched by F.P. Rubidge. Draftsman / Board of Works. / b.: THE UNION-SUSPENSION-BRIDGE. / Ottawa River, Bytown. / Distance between the points of suspension. 243. Ft. 6 In. ; verso u.l., in pencil: C 3811 / n[^o underlined] 40 / in / PWD. Vol. of / Plans dr. [?] of Improvements / on Public Works / 1844 ; in pen and black ink, u.r.: 40

Subject heading

1. Ontario.
2. architecture.
3. GEOG - ONT., OTTAWA - BRIDGES, CHAUDIÈRE.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

ICON104934

MIKAN no.

2837775