Antique Print of the Region of the Hayes river, Northern Manitoba, Canada, 1759

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Antique Print of the Region of the Hayes river, Northern Manitoba, Canada, 1759

Name: Antique Print of the Region of the Hayes river, Northern Manitoba, Canada, 1759
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: JAK-410
Price: 145 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1759
Kind: Maps
Size: 25.5 × 18.5 cm (10 × 7.3 in)
Condition: Fair. Some creasing and wear. Blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Canada
Reference: JAK-410

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 Montagu House, two views on one sheet from the Histoire generale des voyages by A.F. Prevost, published by Didot in Paris. It is an original copper engraving dated 1759, lettered "Quartier d'Hyver dans la Riviere de Hayes" above and "Maison de Montagu" below, with the volume mark "Tom. XV" and plate number at the foot.

The upper view shows the Dobbs Galley, under William Moor, and the California, under Francis Smith, moored among broken ice in their winter anchorage on the west coast of Hudson Bay. Fir trees stand along the bank, and the ice has been drawn in hard, angular blocks around the hulls. The lower view shows Montagu House, a log building with a snow-covered roof in a clearing among spruce, where two figures stand before the door and a column of smoke rises from the camp beyond.

The two ships were sent from England on a search for the Northwest Passage, and Hayes River, in what is now northern Manitoba, was their wintering ground. Engravings like these, made in Paris after the English accounts, gave readers on the Continent their first impression of the Arctic coast.

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