L: 43.9cm W: 0.6cm H: 52.8cm
Drawing: L: 29.0cm H: 36.8cm
A pencil, ink and watercolour drawing of the clock tower at Kingston's City Hall. The drawing is complete with the clock tower dome, bell tower and weather vane. There are structural pencil lines below the drawing that were purposely erased. The title "ELEVATION." is printed below the drawing. Other inscriptions on the paper read: "No. 3"; "Scale, 8 feet to one inch".
Power and Son was an architecture firm in Kingston at the turn of the 20th century. Upon the death of John Power on 14 March 1882 his son Joseph continued the practice in Kingston, Ont. under the firm name of Power & Son., which was established in November of 1873. After the fires that destroyed St. George’s Cathedral in 1899 and City Hall’s dome in 1908, the firm was commissioned to design the repair and restoration of these buildings.
