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Title

Vue de Quebec. 

Arrangement structure

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Item (linked) part of

Graphic material [graphic material] (R1461-5-2-E)

Date(s)

ca. 1775

Place

Augsburg

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 print / estampe : etching with watercolour on laid paper
Support: 41.400 x 34.000 cm
Image: 40.200 x 25.100 cm
Platemark: cm (cropped within platemark)
Secondary support: 44.700 x 34.200 cm

Scope and content

Hand coloured etching of the harbour of Quebec City. The view is imaginary, the artist never saw Québec. The reversed writing is meant to be seen in the mirror of a viewing machine.
There were originally three copies of each print in the series in the William Molson Macpherson Collection. The Archives now has at least two of each print. They are numbered 1989-514-80X to -89X consecutively. The pair of this print is 1989-514-88X. This work was once framed.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)
99: Closed pending processing
Nil
Graphic (art)
99: Closed pending processing
Box
A306-01A Item no. assigned by LAC 89
Restrictions not set
Other accession no.
1989-514 X DAP
00089

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1989-514-89
Copyright: Nil

Additional name(s)

Artist: Leizelt, Balthazar Frederich, fl. 1770-1799.
Engraver: Leizelt, Balthazar Frederich, fl. 1770-1799.

Additional information

set: Collection des Prospects (four works by Habermann and one by Leizelt)

Signatures and inscriptions
Inscribed. Signed.
Inscription: in plate, u.l. above image:Collection des Prospects.
Inscription: t. above image, written in reverse:VUË DE QUEBECK
Inscription: l.r. under image:Gravé par Balth. Frederic Leizelt
Inscription: l.r. under above inscription:Quebeck./Une Ville de Canada dans l'Amerique Septentrionale auprès/du rivage gauache du fleuve St. Laurent, elle etoit la Capitale de/la nouvelle France, mais les Anglois la prirent en 1759. et/par la Paix suivante elle fut cedée à la Couronne d'Angle=/terre avec Canada en entier.
Inscription: l.l. opposite above inscription:Quebeck./Eine Stadt in Nord-America, in Canada, an den lincken Ufer/des Flufses St. Laurenz, sie ware die Haupt Stadt in Neu/Franckreich, wrude aber 1759. von den/Engelland erobert, und/in dem darauf erfolgten Frieden nebst ganz Canada an die Crone Engelland abgetretten.
Inscription: b.:Se vend à Augsbourg au Negoce comun de l'Academie Imperiale d'Empire des Arts libereaux avec Privilege de Sa Majesté Imperiale et avec Defence ni d'en faire ni de vendre les Copies.

Subject heading

1. Québec.
2. cityscape.
3. vue de ville.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

ICON57668

MIKAN no.

2886007