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MONTREAL Lots 224-253
After Thomas Patten
An East View of Montreal in Canada, by P. Canot
Details
After Thomas Patten
An East View of Montreal in Canada, by P. Canot
handcoloured engraving from the 'Scenographia Americana', published by J. Bowles, R.Sayer, T. Jefferys, Carington Bowles, and H. Parker, London, 1768
approx. 14 x 19 ¾in. (35.6 x 50.2cm.)
An East View of Montreal in Canada, by P. Canot
handcoloured engraving from the 'Scenographia Americana', published by J. Bowles, R.Sayer, T. Jefferys, Carington Bowles, and H. Parker, London, 1768
approx. 14 x 19 ¾in. (35.6 x 50.2cm.)
Literature
Spendlove, p.13, pl.29.
Deak, no.111 (‘This print, which was included in the Scenographia Americana of 1768, had been issued previously as a separate in 1762.’). Patten’s view was the first to show Montreal after its capture by General Amherst in 1760. The original watercolour is in the Sigmund Samuel collection, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
Deak, no.111 (‘This print, which was included in the Scenographia Americana of 1768, had been issued previously as a separate in 1762.’). Patten’s view was the first to show Montreal after its capture by General Amherst in 1760. The original watercolour is in the Sigmund Samuel collection, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
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