Great Lakes Art Database

A View of York (Toronto) Upper Canada, 1820.

Description
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Creator
Grier, Sir Edmund Wyly, Artist
Item Type
Watercolor paintings
Description
Inscribed in ink, b.: A View of York (Toronto) Upper Canada, 1820, From the Original Oil owned by Mrs. Stephen Heward. Painted by Mr. Irvine, a Scotch Artist residing in York at the time. / The View shows the Peninsula, now an Island, with Lighthouse, Toronto Bay & Front St. from the Garrison on the West to the Market and Palace Street, East, to the Parliament Buildings, near the Foot of Berkeley Street destroyed by Fire in the Year 1824. JRR (1912) 517

Key in 'Landmarks of Toronto' v.3, facing p. 94, and (revised) v.5, facing p. 290.
Notes
Water colour, pen & ink over blue pencil with ruled border of pen & ink, pencil, and grey wash. Laid down on cardboard mount
Date of Original
1896
Date Of Event
1820-1900
Dimensions
Width: 90.7 cm
Height: 49.7 cm
Geographic Coverage
  • Gibraltar Point
    Ontario, Canada
    Latitude: 43.6136994014319 Longitude: -79.3853193525314
  • Toronto
    Ontario, Canada
    Latitude: 43.6365344124734 Longitude: -79.3764745605469
Copyright Statement
Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
Contact
Association for Great Lakes Maritime History
Website:
https://aglmh.net

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A View of York (Toronto) Upper Canada, 1820.


Inscribed in ink, b.: A View of York (Toronto) Upper Canada, 1820, From the Original Oil owned by Mrs. Stephen Heward. Painted by Mr. Irvine, a Scotch Artist residing in York at the time. / The View shows the Peninsula, now an Island, with Lighthouse, Toronto Bay & Front St. from the Garrison on the West to the Market and Palace Street, East, to the Parliament Buildings, near the Foot of Berkeley Street destroyed by Fire in the Year 1824. JRR (1912) 517

Key in 'Landmarks of Toronto' v.3, facing p. 94, and (revised) v.5, facing p. 290.