American Historical
Print Collectors Society

2006 ANNUAL MEETING
MAJESTIC OTTAWA 
Thursday, June 22 to Sunday, June 25, 2006

PREVIEW OF PRINTS FROM THE PETER WINKWORTH COLLECTION

On Friday June 23, we will be visiting Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa.  Jim Brust, Acting Director of the Visual Heritage Division, has kindly provided the following preview of prints from the Library and Archives' outstanding Peter Winkworth collection.  

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Michilimackinac on Lake Huron, 1813.  Richard Dillon Jr. (1782-fllg. 1857), artist and publisher; Thomas Hall (engraver).  Etching and aquatint, hand-coloured on wove paper: 27.8 x 30.7 cm (sheet ).  R9266-1465; C-151574.  Credit: Library and Archives Canada, R9266-1465; Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana. 

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War! Or No War. Say the 49th Let's settle it amercably... [Oregon Territory dispute], 1846.  Odham, Thomas (artist, active 1846) (attributed to); Palmer, F. & S. (lithographers). Lithograph on wove paper: 33.5 x 44.9 cm (sheet ). R9266-3547; e000835935.   Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-3547 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana.

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Burning of the Caroline on the Night of the 29th December 1837, executed 1838. Read, J.B. (artist, active 1837); Steele Lithographers, Buffalo, N.Y. (Printer)Lithograph, hand-coloured on wove paper: 39.7 x 53.0 cm (sheet ).   R9266-3294; e000835920. Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-3294 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana. 

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First View of Com Perry's Victory.  Corne, M. (artist); Annin, W.B. (engraver).  Aquatint and engraving. R9266-3235; e000943093.  Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-3235 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana.

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Second View of Com Perry's Victory.  Corne, M. (artist); Annin, W.B. (engraver).  Aquatint and engraving.  R9266-3236; e000943094.  Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-3236 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana. 

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A Scene on Lake Ontario: United States Sloop of War, General Pike, Commodore Chauncey and the British Sloop of War, Wolf, Preparing for Action, September 28th, 1813, published November 1st, 1813.  Engraving on wove paper: 20.9 x 35.9 cm. (image); 24.5 x 36.6 cm (support, sight). Rawdon, Ralph (Engraver); Shelton & Kensett, Cheshire, Connecticut (Publisher).

Inscription: on recto, in the plate, t.: A SCENE ON LAKE ONTARIO.; l.r.: R.Rawdon Sc.; b.: United States Sloop of War Gen.Pike,Commodore Chauncey and the British Sloop of War Wolf, sir James Yeo, Preparing for action Sept. 28th.1813./Published and Sold by Shelton & Kensett Cheshire Con. Novemr. 1st. 1813. (complete transcription )

R9266-3244; e0025111277.  Credit: Library and Archives Canada / Bibilothque et Archives Canada (R9266-3244) Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana

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Major General William H. Harrison.  Lithograph on wove paper: 58.0 x 43.2 cm

Inscription: on recto, on the stone, b. of the image.:MAJOR GENL. WM. H. HARRISON.; l.l.:No. 1. ENSIGN HARRISON. 19 years of age, with his knapsack on his back, in the/winter of 1791, at the fatal battle-field of St. Clair, to which he marched at the head of/his Detachment, to Inter the bones of his slaughtered Countrymen./" 2. LIEUTT. HARRISON as the aid-de-camp of Genl. Wayne, 20th of August/1794, at the Victory at the Maumee Rapids./" 3. GOVERNOR HARRISON, in August, 1810, at the Council of Vincennes with/Tecumseh, at which an attempt was made to assasinate him./" 4. GOVERNOR HARRISON making a treaty with the Sacks and Fox Indians.; l.r.:No. 5. GENERAL HARRISON, in 1812, at the head of 7000 Troops in his first/Campaign against the combined British and Indians on the North Western frontiers./" 6. GENL. HARRISON in the Winter of 1812 hastening at night to the assistance of/Genl. Winchester to prevent the Massacre at the River Raisin./" 7. GENL. HARRISON and his Army going to Winter quarters at the Maumee/Rapids, in 1812./" 8. HARRISON'S Victory at Tippecanoe, over the combined Indian tribeds un-/der the Prophet, November 7th, 1811.; b.:No. 9. HARRISON'S Victory at the Thames in upper Canada, over the combined British/and Indian forces under Proctor and Tecumseh, October 5th 1813. (complete transcription )

R9266-3024; e002140050.  Credit: Library and Archives Canada / Bibilothèque et Archives Canada (R9266-3024) Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana.

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Great Western Rail Way [The Steamship America], ca. 1850. Colour lithograph: 73.0 x 120.0 cm.  Parsons, Charles, artist (1821-1910) ; Charles Parsons (Printer); Endicott & Co., New York (Publisher).  

Inscription: Inscribed in the stone. u.c.; GREAT WESTERN RAIL WAY. l.c.; DAILY LINE BETWEEN / HAMILTON, TORONTO, CAPE VINCENT, KINGSTON, BROCKVILLE, ODGENSBURG / CONNECTING THE / GREAT WESTERN WITH THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY. / And with the AMERICAN RAILWAYS at CAPE VINCENT and OGDENSBURG. l.l.; C. PARSONS DEL. l.r.; LITH. OF ENDICOTT & CO. N.Y.

R9266-2737; e002140158.  Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-2737 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana

 

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Trying Her Constancy, or, a dangerous flirtation [Miss Canada being tempted by Uncle Sam], ca. 1885-1890. Merry, Tom, artist (1852-1902) (most active 1885-1890). Lithograph. R9266-3552; e000756752. Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-3552 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana.

 

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