Collection search - Old Houses on Little Champlain Street under the Cliffs at the Coves, Quebec City / Vieilles maisons de la rue Petit-Champlain au pied des falaises <<anses>>, à Québec

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in pen and ink over pencil, recto l.l.: Sept 2-'89/C.W.JEFFERYS.; in pen and ink, verso top on mount: No.5/Old Houses at the Coves, Quebec, 1889/These houses, fronting on Little Champlain Street,/were built along the narrow beach at the base of/the cliffs which lined the St. Lawrence.Their backs/looked out upon the Coves,were square timber rafts/were broken up, and loaded on ocean going vessels,/many of which were sailing ships at the time these/sketches were made.C.W.J.