One watercolor painting depicting the crest of the City of Ottawa, the crest is painted on white background and is flanked on one side by "justice" and on the other by a blacksmith. Centre of the crest is divided into quarters, top true right depicts a train, the top true left depicts two deer before a sunrise. The bottom right depicts the Bytown Locks with commissariat and the bottom left depicts the Chaudiere bridge. Above the crest is a sheaf of wheat, a broad axe, a bee hive and a hand plough. There is a scroll at base of crest with "City of Ottawa // Advance" painted on the scrolls, in the center of the scroll below the crest is a red rose with green leaves. The painting is surrouned by a beige mat and disaplyed in a plain black wooden frame.
Made/Created
Date made
1850
Notes
Additional create date: 1885
Inscription/Signature/Marks
Transcription
"Presented by Mrs. A.C. Kains".
Notes
Written in black ink on the top left corner of the frame backing.
Reference: [object Object]
John Henry Walker immigrated to Canada in 1842 along with his family from Antrim County, in what is now Northern Ireland. In 1845, his mother apprenticed him to the engraver Cyrus A. Swett, with whom he worked until 1848. He learned to be both a copper and wood engraver.
Walker illustrated numerous sales catalogues, books, government reports, advertisements and magazines like The Canadian Illustrated News, L'Opinion Publique and Le Monde Illustr�.
