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Title

The Quebec Driving Club meeting at the Place d'Armes. 

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Item (linked) part of

Canadian Historical Prints Collection [graphic material] (R13133-0-7-E)

Date(s)

1826

Place of creation

Canada

Publisher

D. Smillie & Sons

Extent

1 print / estampe : engraving (1st state) ; 25.1 X 39.3 cm (sheet).

Language of material

English

Scope and content

Engraving of unknown provenance depicting the Quebec Driving Club meeting at the Place d'Armes. Image depicts a group of horse-drawn sleighs circling a field in the snow, with a church on the right.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)
Copy negative C-108082
90: Open
Graphic (art)
90: Open
Volume
35 Item no. assigned by LAC 330
90: Open
Archival reference no.
R13133-344-6-E

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, acc. no. R13133-330. Copyright: expired.

Additional name(s)

Engraver: Smillie, James, 1807-1885.
Artist: Wallace, William, 1815-1900,
Publisher: D. Smillie & Sons.

Additional information

Print was acquired sometime before the initial cataloguing date of 17/3/31, written on the verso. This may be the print purchased from Walter T. Spencer of London in February 1926 (item 6-16-6 - see RG37 or artist file), but this is not confirmed.

Copy negative number: C-108082.

Related materials
See also C-000062 for a variant of the same plate. For other versions of this print, see the Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana (R9266).

Signatures and inscriptions
Inscription: inscribed in the plate, b.: The Quebec Driving Club meeting at the Place d'Armes, [coat-of-arms of Lord Dalhousie] is humbly dedicated by Permission to the Rt. Honourable / The Earl of Dalhousie Patron of the Club, by a Member, His Lordships Most obedient & very humble Servant / William Wallace [cut off]; l.l.: Sketched by W. Wallace.; l.r.: Engraved by J. Smillie Junr.; l.c.: Published by D. Smillie & Son's, Quebec 1826; u.l.: April.; in the image, sign on buildings, l.c.: St. Georges / Commissaria; on building, left of church, c.: D. Smillie & Sons; on dog sleigh, l.r.: G.S. [assumed to be a reference to the engraver's brother George Smillie]

Subject heading

1. Québec.
2. GEOG - QUE., QUEBEC CITY - PARTS OF CITY, PLACE D'ARMES.
3. GEOG - QUE., QUEBEC CITY - BUILDINGS, HOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL.
4. SUBJ - ARCHITECTURE - RELIGIOUS - CHURCHES.
5. SUBJ - COSTUMES, ACTIVITIES - SPORTS & AMUSEMENTS, SLEIGHING.
6. SUBJ - COSTUMES, REGIONS - CENTRAL CANADA - 1826.
7. SUBJ - TRANSPORTATION, LAND - SLEIGHS.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

ICON105651

MIKAN no.

2938701