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A View of the Landing Place above the Town of Quebec describing the Assault of the enemies post on the banks of the River St Laurence, with a Distant view of the action between the British & French armys on the Hauteurs … Abraham Septr 13th 1759; and A View of Quebec from the Bason, by P.C. Canot
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After Francis Swaine, after Captain Hervey Smyth
A View of the Landing Place above the Town of Quebec describing the Assault of the enemies post on the banks of the River St Laurence, with a Distant view of the action between the British & French armys on the Hauteurs … Abraham Septr 13th 1759; and A View of Quebec from the Bason, by P.C. Canot
handcoloured engravings, published by Robert Sayer, London [c.1760]
12 ½ x 18 ½in. (31.8 x 47cm.)
(4)together with three further handcoloured engravings after Hervey Smyth ('A View of the Fall of Montmorenci and the Attack made by General Wolfe on the French Intrenchmens near Beauport, with the Grenadiers of the Army, July 31 1759.' by Wm. Elliot; ‘The taking of Quebec, 13 Sept. 1759’; and ‘A View of the Pierced Island, a remarkable Rock in the Gulf of St Laurence, 2 leagues southward of Gaspe Bay’, by P. C. Canot)
A View of the Landing Place above the Town of Quebec describing the Assault of the enemies post on the banks of the River St Laurence, with a Distant view of the action between the British & French armys on the Hauteurs … Abraham Septr 13th 1759; and A View of Quebec from the Bason, by P.C. Canot
handcoloured engravings, published by Robert Sayer, London [c.1760]
12 ½ x 18 ½in. (31.8 x 47cm.)
(4)together with three further handcoloured engravings after Hervey Smyth ('A View of the Fall of Montmorenci and the Attack made by General Wolfe on the French Intrenchmens near Beauport, with the Grenadiers of the Army, July 31 1759.' by Wm. Elliot; ‘The taking of Quebec, 13 Sept. 1759’; and ‘A View of the Pierced Island, a remarkable Rock in the Gulf of St Laurence, 2 leagues southward of Gaspe Bay’, by P. C. Canot)
Literature
Spendlove, p.10.
C.W. Jefferys, A Catalogue of the Sigmund Samuel Collection Canadiana and Americana, Toronto, 1948, p.115, no.361.
C.W. Jefferys, A Catalogue of the Sigmund Samuel Collection Canadiana and Americana, Toronto, 1948, p.115, no.361.
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