Great Lakes Art Database

Visit of the Prince of Wales to Hamilton, Canada West

Description
Creator
Andrews, George Henry, Artist
Item Type
Drawings
Description
Nine pencil, wash and bodycolour views of places and landmarks in Canada surrounding a larger view showing the buildings and site of The Provincial Exhibition of Upper Canada, with a distant view of Burlington Bay on the left. Each drawing is inscribed with its subject. Reproduced as a double page in the Illustrated London News of 17 November 1860.

George Henry Andrews worked for the Illustrated London News between 1856 and 1860, and in May and June of 1860 was sent to Canada to make a series of watercolours to be reproduced as illustrations to the newspaper's coverage of the Prince of Wales's tour to Canada and the United States. This watercolour dates from that first visit. Andrews then accompanied the royal party on the tour, made between July and October of 1860, as the representative of the Illustrated London News and made many sketches on the spot.

On 20 September the Prince of Wales opened the Great Agricultural Exhibition, an annual event in Hamilton, Canada, having two days previously opened the city's new waterworks (the subject of the drawing in the bottom right corner). During his residence in Hamilton the Prince stayed in a house belonging to a private gentleman named Mr Tuson (seen in the drawing in the top right corner), which those in his entourage thought "the most pleasant domicile we had in Canada" (Gardner D. Englehart, 'Journal of the Progress of the Prince of Wales' (undated) p. 67).

Along with other works by Andrews documenting the Prince's tour, this watercolour was originally mounted in a volume in the Royal Library before being incorporated into the newly-created Souvenir Album XI c.1930.
Date of Original
18-20 Sept. 1860
Dimensions
Width: 50.7 cm
Height: 35.6 cm
Subject(s)
Lighthouses
Yacht racing
Yachts
Schooners
Local identifier
RCIN 920985
Language of Item
English
Geographic Coverage
  • Hamilton
    Ontario, Canada
    Latitude: 43.2811102751649 Longitude: -79.8304039257813
Copyright Statement
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Contact
Association for Great Lakes Maritime History
Website:
https://aglmh.net

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Visit of the Prince of Wales to Hamilton, Canada West


Nine pencil, wash and bodycolour views of places and landmarks in Canada surrounding a larger view showing the buildings and site of The Provincial Exhibition of Upper Canada, with a distant view of Burlington Bay on the left. Each drawing is inscribed with its subject. Reproduced as a double page in the Illustrated London News of 17 November 1860.

George Henry Andrews worked for the Illustrated London News between 1856 and 1860, and in May and June of 1860 was sent to Canada to make a series of watercolours to be reproduced as illustrations to the newspaper's coverage of the Prince of Wales's tour to Canada and the United States. This watercolour dates from that first visit. Andrews then accompanied the royal party on the tour, made between July and October of 1860, as the representative of the Illustrated London News and made many sketches on the spot.

On 20 September the Prince of Wales opened the Great Agricultural Exhibition, an annual event in Hamilton, Canada, having two days previously opened the city's new waterworks (the subject of the drawing in the bottom right corner). During his residence in Hamilton the Prince stayed in a house belonging to a private gentleman named Mr Tuson (seen in the drawing in the top right corner), which those in his entourage thought "the most pleasant domicile we had in Canada" (Gardner D. Englehart, 'Journal of the Progress of the Prince of Wales' (undated) p. 67).

Along with other works by Andrews documenting the Prince's tour, this watercolour was originally mounted in a volume in the Royal Library before being incorporated into the newly-created Souvenir Album XI c.1930.