A charcoal drawing of houses along Yonge Street in Portsmouth Village. The sketch features the Portsmouth Tavern on the left side of the image and King Street West in the background. It is housed in a brown wooden frame and is set in a white mat board. There is a wire on the back to hang the picture. The bottom left corner of the back has a white sticker of the framing company.
In 1973, 30 sketches of various Kingston scenes by Montreal artist R. D. Wilson were presented to the City of Kingston by the Macdonald Tobacco Company as a Tercentenary gift. The sketches, called The Macdonald Lassie Tercentenary Collection, were made the previous year on commission by the Montreal-based Tobacco Company. The artist, who has travelled all of the world, lived in Kingston for a month to execute the pencil and charcoal views of the city.
The sketches were presented by Murray Mather, vice-president of Macdonalds, to Kingston Mayor George Speal.
