The Desjardins Canal Bridge, Sketched the Morning after the Late Melancholy Railway Accident (Hamilton, Ontario)
Picture,
1857,
English
The Desjardins Canal Bridge, Sketched the Morning after the Late Melancholy Railway Accident (Hamilton, Ontario)
Picture,
1857,
English
Notes
A wood-engraving of a similar view "From a photograph by D.C. Beere, Esq." (Daniel Manders Beere) is in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, New York, 4 April 1857, p. 272 (see Joan M. Schwartz, "Documenting Disaster", Archivaria, no. 25, Winter 1987-88, pp. 147-54).
Inscribed on the stone, l.l.: Drawn for the Colonist by Armstrong I Toronto; l.r.: Maclear & Co. Lith Toronto.; l.c.: THE DESJARDINS CANAL BRIDGE, / Sketched the Morning after the late Melancholy Railway Accident / Toronto, Published by Thompson & Co.
Publisher
THOMPSON AND COMPANY, Toronto
Rights and Licenses
Medium
Lithograph on wove paper
Extent
227 x 384; 248 x 384; 339 x 509 mm
Call Number / Accession Number
984-16 Cab II