Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: A View of the City of Quebec, the capital of Canada ... Vue de la Ville de Quebec, Capitale du Canada ...
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Accession number:
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6367
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Record number:
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6367-1
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JCB call number:
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En760 S668s /1
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Image title:
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A View of the City of Quebec, the capital of Canada ... Vue de la Ville de Quebec, Capitale du Canada ...
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Creator 1:
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Hervey Smyth
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Creator 1 dates:
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fl. 1760
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Creator 1 role:
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Drawn on the Spot by
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Creator 2:
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P. Benazech
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Creator 2 role:
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Sculp.
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Place image published:
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[London]
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Image publisher:
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Published ... by T. Jefferys near Charing Cross
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Image date:
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1760 Nov. 5
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Image function:
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print
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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31.7 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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50.1 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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43 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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54.9 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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English, French
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Description:
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View of Quebec City from the St. Lawrence River. Includes the location of the St. Charles River and General James Wolfe's landing place before the battle of the Plains of Abraham. Built environment includes fortified settlement, dwellings, churches, shipyard, ships with British flags, boats, and windmills. Items in the image are numbered for identification in text below.
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Source creator:
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Smyth, Hervey
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Source Title:
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Inscribed to the Right Honourable William Pitt, ... Six elegant views of the most remarkable places in the river and gulph of St. Laurence, from the originals ...
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Source place of publication:
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London
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Source publisher:
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published, according to act of Parliament, by Thomas Jefferys
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Source date:
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[1760]
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notes:
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Hervey Smyth was an aide de camp to General James Wolfe. The Canadian landscapes engraved by Smyth were also included in a collection of views published by John Bowles, which are known collectively as Scenographia Americana (1768). Smyth's drawings were drawn on the spot and juxtaposed the British forces against dramatic Canadian landscapes.
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Time Period:
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1751-1800
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References:
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Phelps Stokes, I.N. Iconography, I, p. 281 et seq.
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1910.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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Commentary:
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geographic area:
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North America
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject Area:
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Geography, maps, city views and plans
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Subject headings:
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Québec (Québec)--Description and travel
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Subject headings:
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Québec (Québec)--History--Siege, 1759
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