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Quebec and Mouth of the St. Charles River from Point Levi.
Quebec and Mouth of the St. Charles River from Point Levi.
Quebec and Mouth of the St. Charles River from Point Levi.
This is a watercolor painting by Philip John Bainbrigge of a group camped at Point Levi, with several teepees facing across the water to Quebec City. The specific Great Lakes nation of the figures in the painting is now known. It was painted in 1836.
LAC record
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Watercolor; black ink; pencil; wove paper
watercolour with brushpoint and black ink over pencil on wove paper
Inscribed. Signed. Dated.
Inscription: in pencil, recto u.c. on matte: Quebec and Mouth of the River S[^t-] Charles from Point Levi. 1836; in pen and brown ink, recto l.l. on matte: Quebec & Mouth of the River S[^t-] Charles, from Point Levi. circa 1836.; in pen and brown ink, verso c.: Quebec & Mouth of the R. S[^t.] Charles / from Point Levi.
LAC record; inscription on the painting
Provenance
Bainbrigge is associated with a large group of other officers and colonial officials and their families in terms of copying and exchanging art works. He copied works by or loaned works to such individuals as Millicent Mary Chaplin, George St. Vincent Whitmore, Fanny Bayfield, Henry James Warre, Alexander Mercer, and James P. Cockburn. Bainbrigge painted mostly watercolour scenes of Upper and Lower Canada.
About This GRASAC Record
Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1983-47-133
This record was created by Anne de Stecher during an RAship with Prof. Ruth Phillips.
43.3, -78.1
The painting if of a scene in the Eastern Great Lakes region.