Collection search - A View of cape Rouge or Carouge, Nine Miles above the City of Quebec = Vue de Cap Rouge vulgairement Carouge, à 9 miles au dessus de la Ville de Québec

This print is one of eight Canadian views that were published as part of the Scenographia Americana: or a Collection of Views in North American and the West Indies

Inscription: in the plate, recto, l.l.: A View of Cape Rouge or Carouge, Nine Miles above the City of Quebec / on the North Shore of the RIVER St. LAURENCE. From theis place 1500 chosen Troops at the break of Day fell down the / River on the Ebb of Tide to the place of Landing 13 Sept. 1759 and l.r.: Vue de Cap Rouge vulgairement Carouge, à 9 miles au dessus de la ville de Québec / Sur le bord septentrional de la Rivière de Saint-Laurent. C'est de Carouge que 1500 hommes de Troupes choisies / descendirent avec la Marée, au Lieu du débarquement 13 septembre 1759 ;/ c.: Drawn on the SPOT by Capt Hervey Smyth. Engraved by Peter Mazell.; / l.r. 3A (partial transcription)