Watercolour paintings and photographs of Canada by an unidentified artist, 1884

The paintings and photographs are held within a large album, providing a record of a journey by unidentified travellers to Canada from Liverpool in 1884. The 133 paintings are small landscapes depicting a number of subjects, including the following: Liverpool, River Mersey, Moville, Lough Foyle, icebergs, Bellisle, St Lawrence River, Gasp, Isle of Orleans, Montmorenci Falls, Point Levis, Quebec, The Thousand Islands, Sorel, Brockville, Deplau Rapids, Lake St Francis, Long Sault Rapids, Cornwall Canal, Coteau, Lake St Louis, Lake George, Lake Champlain, Port Henry, Niagara Falls, Lake Ontario, and Toronto. There are fifteen photographs, all black and white, illustrating the following subjects: the Polynesian (a boat), the Hudson and Catskills, the Lachine Canal, Montmorenci Falls, Niagara Falls, Chicoutimi and Saguenay.

The identity of the artist of these paintings is unknown. The title page of the album in which the paintings appear is entitled 'our silver wedding trip', with the date 1884 and the initials I.M.M. In a different and later hand, the title page has been annotated 'the British Association.' It is not clear what, if any, association there might be with the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which was founded in the 1830s.

No archival arrangement has been necessary

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LANGUAGE: English

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The volume was acquired by the library of University College Nottingham in the 1930s.