Engraving of a Wood Depot on the St Lawrence River near the City of Quebec, 1850

1850 · Views & Engravings

Engraving of a Wood Depot on the St Lawrence River near the City of Quebec, 1850

Name: Engraving of a Wood Depot on the St Lawrence River near the City of Quebec, 1850
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13600-4
Price: 190 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1850
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 16.3 × 25.4 cm (6.4 × 10 in)
Condition: Good. Good, given age. Paper slightly browned. Light foxing. General age-related toning. Later handcoloring. Two small pieces of tape on the reverse. Please study scan carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Canada
Reference: BG-13600-4

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

Timber depot near Quebec, a hand-colored steel engraving after William Henry Bartlett, engraved by H. Adlard, dated 1850. The plate title "Timber Depot near Quebec" is engraved in script beneath the image, with the artist's name at lower left and the engraver's name at lower right.

The view looks down from a wooded bank on the St. Lawrence. In the foreground a figure sits at the foot of a tall pine looking out over the river, and spruce trees fill the slope at the left. A wide field of floating logs and timber rafts covers the water along the shore below a high rocky headland, with a line of houses along the foot of the cliff. Sailing ships lie at anchor further out on the river, and the far bank rises low and blue beyond them.

The timber trade was one of the main businesses of Quebec in the first half of the nineteenth century, with square timber rafted down the St. Lawrence and loaded for the British market. Bartlett (1809 to 1854) was an English artist who traveled widely in North America and whose views were engraved by several hands for illustrated travel books.

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