1757 Engraving of Hudson Bay – Winter Encampment & Early Settler Cabin

1757 · Views & Engravings

1757 Engraving of Hudson Bay – Winter Encampment & Early Settler Cabin

Name: 1757 Engraving of Hudson Bay – Winter Encampment & Early Settler Cabin
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-78
Price: 155 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1757
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 25 × 18.2 cm (9.8 × 7.2 in)
Condition: Good. Well-preserved with clear plate impressions and strong details. Some light toning and minor edge wear, consistent with age.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Canada
Reference: BG-14038-78

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Winter quarters on the Hayes River and the house of Montagu, a copperplate engraving of 1757 from the Histoire Générale des Voyages (Tome XV, No. X), with two scenes on one sheet and a pencil note reading "Canada".

The upper scene is lettered "Quartier d'Hyver dans la Riviere de Hayes". Two tall-masted ships lie frozen in among broken ice and snowy banks, flanked by spruce trees. The lower scene, "Maison de Montagu", shows a log house with a snow-covered roof at the left, with figures standing before its door and smoke rising from the chimney, while a cluster of smoking tents or wigwams appears farther back among the evergreens.

Both views come from accounts of the voyages into Hudson Bay, where ships wintered at the mouth of rivers such as the Hayes. The engraving shows the European and Native encampments of the fur-trade country as the compilers of the Voyages imagined them.

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