Recherche dans la collection - A View of the Launching Place Above the Town of Quebec, Describing the Assault of the Enemy, 13 September, 1759 [graphic material]

This work was not accessioned when it first came to the Public Archives. It is mentioned in RG 37 "C" Series records, Vol. 335, file 1921-140. It was formerly attributed to Benjamin West, but in 1957, during restoration, Swaine`s signature was found on a rock in the left foreground..
See also copy negative C-000788 from engraving.
Painting was restored by the National Gallery of Canada in 1957.
Colour transparencies are available of both framed and unframed versions.

Colour transparency available

Exhibition title: Mirror of Canada Past. Curators: Staff of the National Archives, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1972.06.01 - 1972.09.25, cat. no.: no. 16-3., Exhibition title: Georgian Canada: Conflict and Culture. Curators: Donald Webster, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario; 1984.06.15 - 1984.10.15., Exhibition Title: La Prise du Québec, 1759-1760. Curator: Daniel Drouin, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; Québec, Québec City; 2009.05.21 - 2009.09.20, Exhibition Title: Treasured Memories 6: A National Archives of Canada Exhibition. Curator: Michel Anne Crawley, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2002.02.18 - 2002.11.17

Inscription: in brushpoint and yellow oil on rock, recto l.l.: FSwaine