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Title

[Windmill over a beach].

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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 of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 print: lithograph printed in black; 12x18 cm (image); 25.3x34 cm (page)

Language of material

English

Scope and content

A genre scene depicting a beach at low tide. Several figures walk along the shore into the distance. The figure closest to the foreground is seated on a [horse] carrying double baskets on it's back. A figure is standing next to one of two single-masted vessels sitting on the shore. Three tracks extend along the shore into the distance. Several figures are walking uphill towards buildings at the right. Overlooking the beach on a rise of land is a vertical shaft windmill. There are pieces of wood, rocks and a bollard with lines wound around the bottom on the beach as it rises towards the buildings on the right.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)

99: Closed pending processing

Volume
23 Item no. assigned by LAC 8

99: Closed pending processing

Archival reference no.

R977-230-6-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

Signatures and inscriptions

Inscription: signature (MLL); undated and untitled. With the following inscription at the bottom: "Lith. U. Steinbach, rue des Pois, 6, St Pétersbourg".

Source

Private

MIKAN no.

3994899