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Vue de Quebec

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Item

Date:

ca. 1775

Reference:

Box number: A306-01A

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2885995

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William Molson Macpherson fonds

Graphic material and artwork

Vue de Quebec
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

ca. 1775

Place:

Augsburg

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Place of printing:

Augsburg

Extent:

1 print / estampe : etching with watercolour on laid paper
Support 38.200 x 46.800 cm
Image 25.200 x 39.600 cm
Platemark 32.300 x 42.400 cm

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Etched view of the harbour of Quebec City, hand painted with watercolour. This is a false view -- the reversed writing of the upper inscription is meant to be seen in the mirror of a viewing machine., There were originally three copies of each print in the series in the William Molson Macpherson Collection. The Archies now has at least two of each print. They are numbered 1989-514-80X to -89X consecutively. The pair of this work is 1989-514-89X.
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Artist: Leizelt, Balthazar Frederich, fl. 1770-1799

Engraver: Leizelt, Balthazar Frederich, fl. 1770-1799
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General note:

set: Collection des Prospects (four works by Habermann and one by Leizelt)

Signatures and inscriptions note:

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Inscribed. Signed., Inscription: in pencil on support recto, u.r. above image:29, Inscription: in the plate, u.l. above image:Collection des Prospects., Inscription: u.r. above image, written in reverse:VUË DE QUEBECK, Inscription: l.r. under image:Gravé par Balth. Frederic Leizelt, Inscription: l.r. under above inscription:Quebeck/Une Ville de Canada dans L'Amerique Septentrionale auprès/du rivage gauche du fleuve St. Laurent, elle etoit la Captiale de/la nouvelle France, mais les Anglois la prirent en 1759. et par la Paix suivante elle fut cedée à la couronne d'Angle-/terre avec Canada en entier., Inscription: b.:Se vend à Augsbourg au Negoce comun de l'Academie Imperiale d'Empire des Arts libereaux avec Privilege de Sa Majesté Imperiale et avec Defense ni d'en faire ni de vendre les Copies., Inscription: l.l.:Quebeck/Eine Stadt in Nord-America, in Canada, an den lincken Ufer/des Flufses St. Laurenz, sie ware die Haupt Stadt in Neu/Franckreick, wurde aber 1759. von den Engelandern erobert, und/in dem darauf erfolgten Frieden nebst ganz Canada an die Crone Engelland abgetretten.
Subject heading:

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Québec

cityscape

vue de ville
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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1989-514 X DAP
00088
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Nil

Box [1989-514]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A306-01A Item no. assigned by LAC 88

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00088] C-148842

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1989-514-88
Copyright: Nil

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