VIEW FROM BARRACK HILL. : OTTAWA RIVER CANADA.

William S. Hunter, Jr.

View from Barrack Hill. : Ottawa River Canada.

Two-color lithograph with handcoloring, 1855-56.
Image size 8 3/8 x 11 5/8" (213 x 295 mm).
Good conditin and color. LOCATION: New York City

Inventory Number: 87848
Price: $300.00
Publisher : Published by William S. Hunter, Jr. Wm. S. Hunter del. J. H. Buffords Lith. Boston. Appeared in Hunter's Ottawa scenery in the vicinity of Ottawa City, Canada. All images based on drawings by Hunter and printed in Boston by Bufford. Drawn on stone by Winslow Homer and John P. Newell. "Probably the first book to include lithographs drawn by Winslow Homer, who was apprenticed to Bufford's of Boston at the relatively late age of eighteen, . . . the third plate, View of the Locks, Entrance of Rideau Canal is initialed by Homer, and the large title vignette and five other plates are attributable to him on grounds of style." Tatham,"Winslow Homer and the Printed Book" (1992). 18th-19th Century Subjects , Town Views - Canada , Ontario