1850 · Views & Engravings
Rideau Canal Locks and Haliburton’s Residence – Pair of Canadian Views, ca.1850
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- Date
- 1850
- Kind
- Views & Engravings
- Size
- 12.5 × 20.5 cm (4.9 × 8.1 in)
- Condition
- Good. Overall. Uniform toning with a few faint foxing marks in the margins. Edges show mild signs of wear from binding. Strong impressions and stable paper on both sheets.
- Period
- Westward Expansion & Civil War
- Places
- Canada
- Reference
- BG-05150-11, -12
What the condition grades mean
- Excellent
- Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
- Very good
- Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
- Good
- Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
- Fair
- Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.
Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured.
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About this piece
Two views of Canada, original steel engravings by Lemaitre, each headed "Canada" and printed in France around 1850. The sheet shows "Vannes sur le Canal Rideau, près Bytown" at the left and "Habitation du Juge Haliburton" at the right.
The first plate looks along the Rideau Canal near Bytown, as Ottawa was then called. A paddle steamer lies in the water in front of a set of stone-walled locks, with the flights of the canal stepping up into the background between steep, wooded rock faces. A small pavilion-like building with a verandah stands at the water's edge at the left. The canal was built between 1826 and 1832 as a military route between Montreal and Kingston.
The second plate shows the house of Judge Haliburton, a low, symmetrical building with a columned doorway and chimneys at either end, standing among tall conifers and garden shrubs, with two small figures in front. Thomas Chandler Haliburton, a Nova Scotian judge and author, is best known for his "Sam Slick" stories.
The pair comes from a set of small Canadian views made in France for a European audience.