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1882
GUSN-273093
This collection includes thirteen watercolors of sights in and around Boston, including Jamaica Pond, the Public Garden, City Point, Nantasket Beach, Revere Beach, Point Shirley (in Winthrop), and Mount Auburn Cemetery (in Cambridge). The collection also includes a scrapbook containing ephemera and photographs memorializing the Elliots visit to Boston.
recreation
leisure
painting (image-making)
travel
tourism
watercolors (paintings)
scrapbooks
ephemera
13 watercolors
1 scrapbook
Finding aid available in the Library & Archives.
This collection was consigned to Sotheby and Company in London and auctioned on June 13, 1961. Much of the Canadian material is held by Library and Archives Canada, but the watercolors of Boston and vicinity and the related ephemera were purchased from a shop in Boston by Nancy and Bill Osgood. In 2009, the Osgoods donated the materials to Historic New England.
GC005
Arthur Elliot graphic collection
2009
GC005
A collection of watercolors completed by English watercolor artist Arthur Elliot while visiting Boston in 1882.
Gift
Gift of Bill and Nancy Osgood, 2009.
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Jamaica Pond (Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [lake]
Nantasket Beach (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
Point Shirley (Barnstable county, Massachusetts) [cape]
Elliot, Arthur (Painter)
watercolors (paintings)
scrapbooks
ephemera
This collection is available for research.
Delicate materials may be restricted due to their condition.
Condon, Lorna. (Fall 2011). Historic New England Magazine. Boston, Mass.: Historic New England (Organization), "A Visit to Boston" (pg. 12).
Collection
Accruals are not expected.
This collection is entirely in English.
[Item identification]. Arthur Elliot graphic collection (GC005). Historic New England.
This finding aid was created by Abigail Cramer, April, 2013.
This finding aid is DACS compliant.
Arthur Elliot was an English watercolor artist. He and his wife toured the United States and Canada in 1881 and 1882, visiting New York City, Niagara, Toronto, Georgian Bay, Montreal, Quebec, and Boston, where he arrived in April, 1882. The Elliots stayed first at the American House Hotel and later at a boarding house on Columbus Avenue. Throughout his trip, Elliot made more than three hundred drawings of the places he visited.
Arthur Elliot collection of views of Québec and Montréal. Library and Archives Canada. http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_tim=2013-04-04T16%3A09%3A54Z&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=199803&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fcollectionscanada.gc.ca%3Apam&lang=eng.
Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada. Library and Archives Canada. http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_tim=2013-04-04T16%3A10%3A34Z&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=191488&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fcollectionscanada.gc.ca%3Apam&lang=eng.
The materials in this collection are arranged alphabetically by the title assigned to the work by the artist. If no title is present, the archivist has assigned one (denoted by brackets).
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