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Title

The Falls of Montmorenci. 

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Item (linked) part of

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition [graphic material, cartographic material] (R9266-5-0-E)

Date(s)

1793

Place

Quebec

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Publisher

Quebec Magazine
sold by: James McArdell, London, England

Extent

1 print / estampe : engraving with watercolour
Support: 27.300 x 22.900 cm
Image: 24.800 x 19.800 cm
Platemark: cm (platemark cropped or obscured)

Scope and content

a mountain landscape with cascading waterfall which has a rainbow depicted in its mist. There are small figures at the bottom of the image who are fishing from small boats and from the rocks.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)
99: Closed pending processing
No restrictions on access or on use for
publication or reproduction.
Graphic (art)
99: Closed pending processing
Item no. assigned by LAC
3456
90: Open
Archival reference no.
R9266
Other accession no.
03456

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-3456 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Copyright: expired

Additional name(s)

Artist: Hochstetter, J.G., active 1791-1796.
Engraver: Neilson, Samuel.

Additional information

Exhibitions note
Exhibition title: The Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana Early Impressions of Quebec. Curators: Jim Burant, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2006.05.16 - 2006.09.05. Further venue: Musée des Beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec; 2007.01.20 - 2007.03.18. Further venue: La Citadelle, Québec, Québec; 2008.06.26 - 2008.09.01.

Alpha-numeric note
Sotheby's inventory no. p1212

Signatures and inscriptions
Inscription: Inscribed in the plate, l.c.: THE FALLS OF MONTMORENCI. l.l.: Hochstetter Delt. et Sculp. l.r.: (remnants of an inscription removed from the plate, it appears to the name of the engraver "Hochstetter") Note: See Mary Allodi, Printmaking in Canada, p.20-21, for a discussion of this print.

Subject heading

1. Québec.
2. Landscape.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

ICON192153

MIKAN no.

3018703