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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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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