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The Falls of Montmorenci

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

1793

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3018703

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

The Falls of Montmorenci
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Date(s):

1793

Place:

Quebec

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 print / estampe : engraving with watercolour
Support 22.900 x 27.300 cm
Image 19.800 x 24.800 cm
Platemark x cm

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a mountain landscape with cascading waterfall which has a rainbow depicted in its mist. There are small figures at the bottom of the image who are fishing from small boats and from the rocks.
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Artist: Hochstetter, J.G. active 1791-1796

Engraver: Neilson, Samuel
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Alpha-numeric note:

Sotheby's inventory no. p1212

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: The Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana Early Impressions of Quebec. Curators: Jim Burant, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2006.05.16 - 2006.09.05.
Further venue: Musée des Beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec; 2007.01.20 - 2007.03.18.
Further venue: La Citadelle, Québec, Québec; 2008.06.26 - 2008.09.01.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: Inscribed in the plate, l.c.: THE FALLS OF MONTMORENCI. l.l.: Hochstetter Delt. et Sculp. l.r.: (remnants of an inscription removed from the plate, it appears to the name of the engraver "Hochstetter") Note: See Mary Allodi, Printmaking in Canada, p.20-21, for a discussion of this print.
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Québec

landscape
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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03456
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
No restrictions on access or on use for publication or reproduction.

Item no. assigned by LAC [R9266] 3456

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-3456 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: expired

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