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Vue de la Haute Ville à Québec

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

ca. 1775

Reference:

Box number: A306-01A

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2886001

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William Molson Macpherson fonds

Graphic material and artwork

Vue de la Haute Ville à Québec
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Date(s):

ca. 1775

Place:

Augsburg

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Place of printing:

Augsburg

Extent:

1 print / estampe : etching with watercolour on laid paper
Support 36.200 x 46.500 cm
Image 25.200 x 38.900 cm
Platemark 31.800 x 42.000 cm
Secondary support 49.200 x 38.400 cm

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no language

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Hand coloured imaginary view of Quebec city. Several figure groups are in the street engaged in different activities. The reversed writing was 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 to this print is 1989-514-87X.

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Artist: Habermann, Franz Xaver, 1721-1796

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General note:

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

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: Unexpected: Surprising Treasures from Library and Archives Canada. Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Quebec; 2022.12.09 - 2023.11.26.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed., Inscription: in the plate, u.l. above image:Collection des Prospects., Inscription: t. above image, written in reverse:VUË DE LA HAUTE VILLE A QUEBECK., Inscription: l.r. under image:Vuë de la haute Ville a Quebec avec la/Place pour aller a Cavalier du Moulin., Inscription: l.l. opposite above inscription:Profpect der obern Stadt zu Quebec auf dem/Plaz wo man nach dem Möhlen Cavalier gehet., 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 Defense ni d'en faire ni de vendre les Copies., Inscription: in pen and ink on support recto, b. under above inscription:W. 121, Inscription: in the plate, l.r. above r801-3:Gravé par Francois Xav. Habermann
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Québec

cityscape

vue de ville
Source:

Private

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1989-514 X DAP
00084
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Nil

Box [1989-514]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A306-01A Item no. assigned by LAC 84

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1989-514-84
Copyright: Nil

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Date modified:: 2024-04-09