COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
35698
File Name:
35698-4
Call number:
E755 R311d / 1-SIZE
Map title:
Vue de Quebec, Capitale du Canada.
Place of Publication:
[Paris]
Publisher:
[le Rouge]
Publication date:
[1777]
Map size height:
17.3 cm.
Map size width:
25.1 cm.
Item description:
engraving
Geographical description:
View of Quebec City showing churches, monasteries, city hall, windmills, fortifications, and hospital. Also includes ships. Items in the image are lettered for identification in key at left.
Source title:
Recueil des plans de l'Amerique septentrionale
Source place:
A Paris
Cartobibliographic notes:
This view was probably based on Thomas Johnston's View of Quebec published after General Wolfe's siege of Quebec in 1759. Johnston's map was, however, based on an inset from a French map published forty years earlier in 1719.
Normalized date:
1777
Vue de Quebec, Capitale du Canada.
