Title
Fifteen Mile Creek on Lake Ontario.
Creator
Simcoe, Elizabeth, 1762-1850, artist.
Publication details
[around 1794]
Physical details
1 drawing : pen and black ink with monochrome wash on birchbark ; sheet 10.2 x 16.4 cm (oval)
Description
General Simcoe's boat in a bay; a cluster of people on a beach; rocks and trees behind. Inscribed with title in black ink below image and on verso. Mounted on laid paper together with Maps K.Top.119.15.m. Paper bears indistinct watermark and date 1795. Together with a title page:
Place
Niagara (Ont. : District)
Additional information
This group of birchbark drawings at Maps K.Top.119.15. were given to King George III by the Simcoes in October 1796. Elizabeth Simcoe drew on the darker interior of the birchbark rather than the paler exterior. It is probable that this set was conceived of and made as a group possibly with the intention of presenting them to George III, rather than as a series of sketches made at differing points during the Simcoe
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.119.15.l.