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Anne Langton Sketch of Maryboro Lodge – the Home of James Wallis

This miniature charcoal sketch by Anne Langton is of James Wallis home called Maryboro. The sketch has the home in the background and trees in the foreground.

Maryboro Lodge circa 1838 ink and graphite/monochromatic watercolour on cream wove paper.

Photo: Peter Oliver.  Used with permission from City of Kawartha Lakes Archives.

When Anne Langton stayed at James Wallis’ house (the Fenelon Museum), she wrote in her journal,

On Thursday, we went by invitation to see Fenelon Falls and dine with Mr. Wallis…  We walked about, and visited the new house of our entertainer, which is rather further advanced that our own.  Its situation is extremely pretty, on a little plain, thinly scattered with trees, affording a natural lawn… it is a very pretty place.