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Moravian Indian Village near where General Proctor was Defeated in 1812.
Moravian Indian Village near where General Proctor was Defeated in 1812.
Moravian Indian Village near where General Proctor was Defeated in 1812.
This is a watercolor painting of a landscape with Moravia Town, or Fairfield, in the distance. This is the community of Christian Delaware whose town was burned to the ground during the war of 1812 by American forces, because they were suspected of helping the British.
The site of the painting relates to the community of Christian Delaware who settled in Fairfield, or Moravia Town, in 1792.
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Watercolor paint; pencil; wove paper.
Watercolour over pencil on wove paper.
There are pencil sketches on the verso of this work. The artist's notations have not been transcribed.
Inscribed. Signed. Dated.
Inscription: in pen and brown ink, verso c.: Indian village on the Thames near / the spot where Gen[^l.] Proctor ran away- / Sept. 1838; in pencil, verso l.r.: Moravian Indian Village / near where General Proctor / was defeated in 1812.
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Provenance
Exhibition title: The Garrison Years: London, Canada West, 1793 - 1853. Curators: Matheu Teitelbaum, Jim Burant and Judy Saunders, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario; 1983.07.03 - 1983.09.04. Further venue: National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1983.11.14 - 1983.02.26.
Further venue: Musée du Québec, Quebec City, Quebec; 1984.03.14 - 1984.04.12.
About This GRASAC Record
Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1983-47-38
Created by Anne de Stecher during an RAship for Prof. Ruth Phillips.
42.3314, -83.0458
Moraviatown, Fairfield, is in the Eastern Great Lakes region.