View of Ottawa from a tower of the Centre Block (now rebuilt) of the Parliament Buildings looking northwest over the Ottawa River, Ontario

People:

William Notman (photographer)

Title:

View of Ottawa from a tower of the Centre Block (now rebuilt) of the Parliament Buildings looking northwest over the Ottawa River, Ontario

Date:

1863 - ca. 1887

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 14.8 x 20.4 cm secondary support: 26.4 x 35.5 cm

Reference number:

PH1984:0038:008

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.r.: "Notman" and an arrow numbered and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, in the negative, l.l.: "1341 Looking up the Ottawa River" labelled and imprinted - in typescript, on a paper label attached to the secondary support, l.c.: with title [double black line over and under text] stamped - blind embossed on the image, l.r.: "Notman [space] Montreal [sic]"

Location:

Ottawa; Ontario; Canada;

Subject:

architecture
topographic

Subject Descriptive Terms:

river
houses
towers (building divisions)
churches
row houses
steeples
urban landscape
parliament buildings
roof-tops

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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