Drawing in red chalk on hand-ruled paper by an unidentified artist, of the decorative cartouche for John Mitchell's Map of the British and French dominions in North America. Represented in the drawing are two Native American figures in the lower right corner, a colonial port scene in the lower left corner, and cherubs holding a British crest and flag at the top. Corn and palm trees form the side borders
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John Mitchell (1711-1768), was a British botanist, physician, and cartographer. He created A Map of the British and French dominions in North America (London: Andrew Millar, 1755), also known as the Mitchell Map, later used in negotiating the 1783 Treaty of Paris., No linguistic content., Title devised by cataloger., and Place and date of creation supplied by cataloger.
Pencil, pen and ink, pen and wash, and watercolor illustrations in a sketchbook, unsigned, by an unidentified artist of Ontario and Québec, Canada, circa 1808. Depicted are Newfoundland, “carrioles [sic] (carriages) of lower Canada”, “sledge of lower Canada”, “calash (carriage) of lower Canada”, Montmorency Falls on the Montmorency River, Church of Saint Ann, Saint Helen’s Island, “a pipe tomahak [sic]”, the home of Sir Jon Johnson, Fort Chambly, Chaudière Falls on the Ottawa River, the church and mills at Terrebonne, a canoe, Fort Saint Joseph, a dwelling house of the North West Company, Lake Huron, Fort William (a fur trading post of the North West Company), Lake Erie, the mountains near Lake Champlain, and Quebec City. Four illustrations are of unidentified individuals; one illustration is of three unidentified Indigenous people. Inscribed on the front endpaper: “Begun at Quebec, the 9th March 1808”.
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Manuscript captions in English., Title devised by cataloger., and Place of creation and date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Canada, Champlain, Lake, Erie, Lake, Fort Chambly (Chambly, Québec), Fort Saint Joseph National Historic Site (Ont.), Thunder Bay (Ont.), Huron, Lake (Mich. and Ont.), Montmorency River (Québec), Newfoundland and Labrador, Old Fort William (Thunder Bay, Ont.), Ontario, Ottawa River (Québec and Ont.), Québec (Québec), and Sainte-Hélène Island (Québec)
