Fredericton's Barracks and Market House: Hand-Colored 1831 Lithograph

1831 · Views & Engravings

Fredericton's Barracks and Market House: Hand-Colored 1831 Lithograph

Name: Fredericton's Barracks and Market House: Hand-Colored 1831 Lithograph
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13600-64
Price: 155 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1831
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 19 × 25.7 cm (7.5 × 10.1 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition overall. Vibrant hand coloring. Slight toning consistent with age. Clean margins with minimal handling wear.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Canada
Reference: BG-13600-64

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

Barracks and Market House, Fredericton, New Brunswick, a hand-colored lithograph of 1831 from Joseph Bouchette's The British Dominions in North America, printed by Day and Haghe, lithographers to the King, London. The credit at the lower left reads "By a Lady," so the original drawing was made by an amateur whose name is not given, and the title and printer's line are lettered below the image.

The view looks across the Saint John River to a level green bank. At the left stands the Market House, a two-story building with a hipped roof and a small cupola with a weathervane, flanked by tall dark poplars. Beyond it a row of plain buildings leads to the long, low barracks at the right, with wooded hills rising behind and a heavy sky of storm cloud overhead. A canoe with three figures glides across the water in the foreground, and the river bank is reflected in the still surface.

Fredericton was the seat of government of New Brunswick and a garrison town, and the view puts the military barracks and the market, the two public buildings of the place, side by side in the landscape. The plate appears in volume two of Bouchette's work, opposite page 110.

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