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Title

Quebec [reproduction]. 

Arrangement structure

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Item (linked) part of

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

Date(s)

[c. 1840]

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 reproduction : b&w photograph

Scope and content

Black and white photographic reproduction of a lithograph by J.R. Coke Smyth entitled "Quebec" (plate 5 in "Sketches in the Canadas", c. 1840). Image depicts a view of Quebec City, seen from the water, where there appears to be a shipwreck. Three people are paddling away in a small boat as a ship begins to capsize.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)
90: Open
Volume
32 Item no. assigned by LAC 323
90: Open
Archival reference no.
R13133-338-0-E

Terms of use

Copyright : expired Credit : Library and Archives Canada, R13133-323

Additional name(s)

Artist: Smyth, John Richard Coke, 1808-1882,

Additional information

Related materials
Several copies of the original lithograph (inventory no. II-5) are in the collections of LAC. See, for example acc. no. R13133-292 (copy negative no. C-001039).

Signatures and inscriptions
Recto, l.r., within image: QUEBEC. Recto, l.r. margin, photographed handwritten inscription: Quebec. Verso, u.l., manuscript pen: Quebec - Coke Smyth (about 1838)

Subject heading

1. cityscape.
2. Québec (Québec) .

Source

Private

MIKAN no.

3982691