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Title

View of Quebec from Mr. Caldwell's Mills at Point Levi, 1806. 

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Arrangement structure

Date(s)

July 1806

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil on laid paper mounted on wove paper mounted on brown folio
Support: 25.900 x 20.100
Image: 18.600 x 13.300
Secondary support: 36.200 x 26.100

Scope and content

- bound navy blue leather cover with embossed and gold design borders (27.0 x 38.0 x 4.0 cm); brown marbled endpapers which attach first and last folios; 87 folios, 26 bearing images on the recto (fol. 20 bears an image on the verso as well); no title page; spine of album reads: DRAWINGS / - / HERIOT; inscriptions accompanying certain works appear in l.r. of paper mounts or l.r. of folio pages; all images have been removed from album for conservation.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)
99: Closed pending processing
No restrictions on access or on use for
reproduction or publication.
Graphic (art)
Copy negative C-012721
Restrictions not set
Graphic (art)
99: Closed pending processing
Box
A093-01 Item no. assigned by LAC 5
Restrictions not set
Other accession no.
00005
1989-471 X DAP

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1989-471-5
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Additional information

Removed from: Album: "Drawings - Heriot"

Availability of other formats note
Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions
Inscribed. Signed. Dated.
Inscription: in brown ink, verso, t.: View of Quebec from M[r.] Caldwell's Mills / at Point Levi. Geo Heriot. July 1806. / The distance shows the heights of Abraham and the Citadel.; in pencil, mount recto, l.r.: Quebec, etc; in pencil, fol. 13 recto (p. 5), l.r.: G. Heriot I-5

Subject heading

1. Québec.
2. cityscape.
3. GEOG - QUE., QUEBEC CITY - PARTS OF CITY, CAPE DIAMOND.
4. GEOG - QUE., POINT LEVIS.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

MIKAN no.

2836512