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View on the Grand (Ottawa) River, Setting a Canoe down the Rapid

Courtesy of Toronto Public Library. | Public Domain

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Date

1821

Artist

John Elliott Woolford (1778-1866)

Collection

Toronto Public Library

Image Link

https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-PICTURES-R-1464&R=DC-PICTURES-R-1464

Description

Inscribed in ink, mount 1 .r.: Major J. F. Woolford, Del. 1824; In ink over pencil, mount b.: View on the Grand River, setting a canoe down the rapid.
See Dalhousie Journals v.2, p. 100 (14 August 1821): "... at last on the 3rd Joachim, the long threatened thunder burst upon us ... at a point where the river is broken into falls, and a crash of rocks terribly wild ... Woolford got a sketch of it." See Woolford notes. TEC 877D Date Created year accurate; month and day unknown for 1821
Medium: Watercolour over pencil with scraping out.

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Public Domain

Image Credit

Courtesy of Toronto Public Library.

Location

Grand River, Ottawa, Canada

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Rivers
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