Watercolour; pencil; wove paper

Watercolour over pencil on wove paper.

Inscriptions on verso transcribed in artist file

The Seton sketchbook is both a sketchbook and an album. The drawings on the pages are numbered 1950-63-1.1 to 1.19. The other items are glued onto pages. These are numbered 1950-63-2 to 9.

Inscribed. Dated.

Inscription: in brush and blue wash, recto u.r.: 31; l.l.: 20/5/62 The Rideau Canal - 3' August 1844 Steaner "The Pilot".; in pen and black ink, recto, u.r.: 31; in pen and black ink, verso, u.l.: 32; in pen and brown ink, verso, t.: Scene on the Rideau Canal-3' August 1844-/ Small high pressure steamer named the "Pilot" with its accompanying barge, and having in tow three canoes with Indians-When five / of these canoes go in company they are entitled to have the canal lock opened for them- In the left foreground is the / (writing crossed out) birch-bark canoe in common use, and a "Dug-out" or canoe formed of the one log hollowed out, which / is also a very common kind of canoe- (Complete transcription)

sketchbook: "Sketches by Major Seton", folio 16 recto, drawn directly on the page. This sketchbook was paginated by the artist. This is page: 31.

LAC record

Exhibition title: From War to Winterlude - 150 Years on the Rideau Canal / De la défense à la détente - les 150 ans du canal Rideau. Curators: Mary E. Peck, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1982.05.11 - 1982.07.11, cat. no.: no. 59.

This record was created by Anne de Stecher during an RAship for Prof. Ruth Phillips.