Antique Print of the Region of the Hayes River, C.1780

1780 · Views & Engravings

Antique Print of the Region of the Hayes River, C.1780

Name: Antique Print of the Region of the Hayes River, C.1780
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BGJC-00179
Price: 95 USD
Availability: InStock

$95

€83 · dollar price at today's exchange rate

Buy now Ask a question

Shipping to the United States: $51 standard, $73 express, insured and tracked.

Date: 1780
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 17 × 9.5 cm (6.7 × 3.7 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Please study image carefully.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Canada
Reference: BGJC-00179

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

Two views of an English expedition's winter in northern Canada on a single sheet, an original copper engraving of about 1780. The upper image is lettered "Quartier d'Hyver dans la Riviere de Hayes" and the lower "Maison de Montagu", and the plate is numbered in the margins in the manner of a multi-volume travel collection, in the style associated with Prevost's Histoire generale des voyages.

The upper scene shows two sailing ships moored among ice floes and rocky shore under fir trees. They are the Dobbs Galley, commanded by William Moor, and the California, under Francis Smith, wintering in the Hayes River on the west coast of Hudson Bay. The lower scene shows Montagu House, a log building with a snow-laden roof in a clearing among spruce, with two figures standing before it and tents and smoke visible in the distance.

The pair of ships went in search of a Northwest Passage in 1746 and 1747, and this was the winter anchorage of their voyage. The sheet is a useful illustration of early English exploration of Hudson Bay.

★