The Woodcutters (Dunn Township near Port Maitland, Ontario)

W.c. over pencil on wove paper. Inscribed in pencil, vso l.r.: Mrs Carters Picture / In Red Cloke [?; ...illegible]. Drawn on vso u.c. is a rough watercolour sketch of two men and brushpoint signature ''John Joseph Dalton'' (who was Mrs Carter's son-in-law). Reproduced in Edwin C. Guillet, Pioneer Farmer and Backwoodsman, Toronto, 1963, vol.1, p. 331, with title ''The Woodcutters, 1838''.