Millicent Mary Chaplin (fl.1838-1844) after Philip James Bainbrigge

Quebec from the citadel

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Millicent Mary Chaplin (fl.1838-1844) after Philip James Bainbrigge
Quebec from the citadel
twice signed with initials and dated ‘MMC. / 1839’ (lower right and lower left)
watercolour on paper, on two sheets joined
11 5/8 x 29 ½in. (29.4 x 74.9cm.)

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Lot Essay

Chaplin’s model is the panorama dated 1836 by the Royal Engineer, Philip James Bainbrigge. Bainbrigge’s watercolour of similar size, and also on two joined sheets, is in the Royal Ontario Museum, for which see M. Allodi, Canadian Watercolours and Drawings in the Royal Ontario Museum, I, Toronto, 1974, no.58.

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