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拍品專文
This view by Governor Simcoe’s wife follows the direction of a sketch by Lieutenant Robert Pilkington (on Governor Simcoe’s staff 1793-96) who rejoined Mrs Simcoe’s travelling party on Friday 13 September 1793 (‘Fri 13th – Mr. Pilkington coasted the lake from Niagara, and arrived here in two days, about 100 miles. … Fri 25th – I send a map to elucidate the Governor’s journey … The western side of the lake is drawn from Mr Pilkington’s sketches, the eastern from former accounts. Mr Pilkington, who was one of the party, says the scenery was fit for pictures the whole way, and from his drawings I should suppose so. … ’ (The diary of Mrs John Graves Simcoe …, Toronto, 1911, p.192)
Pilkington’s original drawing is in the British Museum. There is another drawing by Mrs Simcoe of this subject, also on birch bark, in the British Museum, in her ‘Views of Upper Canada’ for which see R. Strong, A Pageant of Canada Pages d’histoire du Canada, Ottawa, 1967, pp.248-58, no.208b (illustrated).
‘Notwithstanding its excellence, the value of the artwork of Mrs. Simcoe lies not so much in its merit as an exemplification of good color and pencil work but in the fact that it gives present readers of Canadian history faithful pictures of places and scenes in Upper and Lower Canada from 1791-6, which we would have lost absolutely had it not been for the gifted hand of the wife of the first Governor. … Her sketches of places on the route from Quebec to York, in and about Niagara, and her copies of Lieutenant Pilkington’s sketches in the Georgian Bay district, must add much to the interest of the reader.’ (J. Ross Robertson, Preface to the diary, p.x). Robertson notes on page 200 that ‘Gloucester Pool is an enlargement of the Severn River five miles from its mouth.’)
Pilkington’s original drawing is in the British Museum. There is another drawing by Mrs Simcoe of this subject, also on birch bark, in the British Museum, in her ‘Views of Upper Canada’ for which see R. Strong, A Pageant of Canada Pages d’histoire du Canada, Ottawa, 1967, pp.248-58, no.208b (illustrated).
‘Notwithstanding its excellence, the value of the artwork of Mrs. Simcoe lies not so much in its merit as an exemplification of good color and pencil work but in the fact that it gives present readers of Canadian history faithful pictures of places and scenes in Upper and Lower Canada from 1791-6, which we would have lost absolutely had it not been for the gifted hand of the wife of the first Governor. … Her sketches of places on the route from Quebec to York, in and about Niagara, and her copies of Lieutenant Pilkington’s sketches in the Georgian Bay district, must add much to the interest of the reader.’ (J. Ross Robertson, Preface to the diary, p.x). Robertson notes on page 200 that ‘Gloucester Pool is an enlargement of the Severn River five miles from its mouth.’)