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Citadel, Quebec

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Date:

c. 1838-40.

Reference:

R13133-332-X-E, Volume number: 31

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3976494

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Canadian Historical Prints and Watercolours Collection

Citadel, Quebec
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Date(s):

c. 1838-40.

Place:

London:

Place of creation:

United Kingdom

Publisher:

Thomas McLean,

Place of printing:

London

Extent:

1 print : lithograph, uncoloured ; 28.7 x 41 cm.

Language of material:

English

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Uncoloured lithograph showing a view of the Citadel, Quebec City, seen from across the water. There are several boats in the foreground, as well as a ferry carrying people and animals.

This print is of unknown provenance, acquired sometime before the initial cataloguing date of 29/7/21 (written on the catalogue card).

Item belongs to group II-c in the artist inventory. As noted in the artist file (705-55): "this is the uncoloured series of which we have only two: they are numbered Coke Smyth II-8c and II-12c". II-12c belongs to the Macpherson collection: see acc. no. 1989-514-41x.

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Artist: Smyth, John Richard Coke, 1808-1882

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General note:

Set: Sketches in the Canadas, dedicated to the Earl of Durham, Plate 8

Inventory number: II-8c

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: in the stone, recto, l.l.: CITADEL QUEBEC.; (Complete transcription)

Related material:

For coloured copies of this print, see acc. no's 1970-188-608 and R13133-288.

For the other print from the uncoloured series (Coke Smyth II-c), see acc. no. 1989-514-41x.
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Québec

cityscape

Qué., Québec City : Fortifications - Citadel
Source:

Private
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R13133]

[Consultation 90 Open]

31 Item no. assigned by LAC 318

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Copyright : expired
Credit : Library and Archives Canada, R13133-318

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