The American Bittern Reduced A. Minor July 18 1845

The American Bittern Reduced A. Minor July 18 1845WILLIAM POPE (British Canadian, 1811 1902) The American Bittern Reduced A. Minor July 18 1845 Pen and ink and watercolor Signed W. P lower left Paper size: 15 x 10 7 8 in. Provenance The artists family and thence by descent. Exhibited: Simcoe Ontario, Lynnwood Art Centre, Birds of a Feather, 3 31 May 1987 (a selection). Simcoe, Ontario, Eva Brook Donly Museum, May 7 June 1987 (a selection). Simcoe, Ontario, Lynnwood Art Centre, 4 August 3 September

1565 Paper size: 7 1/2 x 5 5/8 in Frame size: 16 1/4 x 14 1/4 in Provenance: DuMarry (from the inscription on the frontispiece)

delineating the British territorial gains following the French and Indian War and later establishing the future western boundary of the new United States

the right being mostly “Terra Australis’

metal arm extending out to a papered 5-inch diameter earth ball stamped “Columbus Erdglobus”

hotel lobbies

with the exception of some excavated carved maps

Chromolithography demands a sophisticated understanding of color and precise registration of each stone used in the process

in old color

are themes worthy the lifetime of one man

the various Rail Road Co's and other authentic materials by G Woolworth Colton Lithograph map with original color New York: 1882

Lithographed by J

decorated with a bar scale of miles surmounted by a representation of a pair of dividers in yellow and gray wash