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1993.23

ID Number: 1993.23
Category: Communication Artifacts
Sub-category: art
Item Type: Watercolour
Item Name: print
Maker: Walsh, Dr. Edward
Title: A View of Detroit and Straits from the Huron Church
Materials: PAPER, UNKNOWN WOOD, UNKNOWN GLASS
Measurements: overall: 15 1/2 in x 20 in
Description: Rectangular paper; copy of a watercolour in shades of blue, green, brown; clapboard church with steeple is in centre; to the left is a dirt road which comes from the foreground and goes around the far side of the church; on the road is a man on horseback and a man and woman in a barouche; to the right of the church and left of the road are trees; Detroit River is in background; Fort Detroit is visible on the far shoreline; wooden frame, ivory mat, back covered with brown paper, hanging wire; description is handprinted on bottom on front; description is handprinted in pencil on back by museum staff.
History: This is a lithograph of a watercolour in the William Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The description on the front bottom must have been added after the War of 1812.
Collection Name: Museum Windsor
Subject (Fre): Y

Subjects

Assumption Church / Église de l’ Assomption organization

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