Lot 86: ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES PATTISON COCKBURN 1779 - 1847

ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES PATTISON COCKBURN 1779 - 1847 FIVE DRAWINGS OF THE NIAGARA FALLS AREA OF CANADA: AMERICAN FALLS OF NIAGARA; BROCK'S MONUMENT OF QUEENSTOWN [SIC], CANADA; GOAT ISLAND; FOREST SCENERY; AND ANOTHER INDISTINCTLY TITLED the first indistinctly inscribed and signed with the artist's initials J.P.C. on the reverse, each titled; the first and second also titled on the reverse American Falls of Niagara and Gen. Brocks Monument, Niagara respectively, condition as noted pencil drawings various sizes

Christine Cameron and Jean Trudel, The Drawings of James Cockburn: A Visit through Quebec's Past, Gage Publishing, Canada, 1976, pp. 11 and 164

Private Collection, England

In 1821, Major James Patterson Cockburn went to Canada for the first time. He returned to England in 1823 and was re-posted to Canada from 1828 to 1831 with the rank of first lieutenant. According to Cameron and Trudel, he "did not have a very difficult task in Canada. He had to look after administrative problems and to make inspection tours... he travelled extensively in Canada visiting Montreal, Kingston, York, Niagara." The authors continue, "Cockburn knew well the falls of Canada." In 1828 he had collected together fifty-seven large drawings in sepia of different falls and had presented them to the wife of Lord Dalhousie, Governor-in-Chief of Canada from 1820 to 1828.