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Title

[View of Niagara Falls from a Balcony].

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Item (linked) part of

Drawings, watercolors and lithographs by Mary Louisa Lambton Bruce [graphic material] (R977-29-2-E)

Date(s)

[1852]

Place

[Niagara Faills]

Place of creation

Ontario

Extent

1 print: lithograph printed in black; 18x26.5 cm (image); 28x38 cm (page)

Language of material

English

Scope and content

A landscape depicting the Horseshoe Falls viewed from a balcony. There are two plain columns outside the balustrade. The column at the right supports an upper structure. The Balustrade has plain square balusters. At the left of the work is Terrapin Tower at the northwestern corner of Goat Island.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)

99: Closed pending processing

Volume
23 Item no. assigned by LAC 7

99: Closed pending processing

Archival reference no.

R977-229-X-E

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, and family fonds (R977). Copyright: expired/périmé.

Additional name(s)

Artist: Mary Louisa Lambton Bruce, Countess of Elgin and Kinkardine.

Additional information

Physical description note

Same image as the drawing in "Album of Mary Louisa Lambton", page 49, dated 16 July 1838.

Signatures and inscriptions

Inscription: no title or date; unsigned.

Source

Private

MIKAN no.

3994898