Quebec City Canada Harbor View – Antique Steel Engraving St. Lawrence River 1854

1854 · Views & Engravings

Quebec City Canada Harbor View – Antique Steel Engraving St. Lawrence River 1854

Name: Quebec City Canada Harbor View – Antique Steel Engraving St. Lawrence River 1854
Brand: Meyer
SKU: BG-14038-109
Price: 245 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1854
Maker: Meyer
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 14.4 × 23.7 cm (5.7 × 9.3 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition for its age with light overall age toning and minor spotting mainly in the margins. Plate mark visible. Paper remains strong and stable.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Canada
Reference: BG-14038-109

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

Quebec City from the St. Lawrence, an original steel engraving from Meyers Universum, published by the Bibliographisches Institut in Germany in the mid-19th century. The plate is printed in black and lettered below the image "Quebeck in Canada."

The view looks across choppy water toward the city on its promontory. Cap Diamant rises at the left, crowned with the fortifications of the Citadel and a flag, and the upper town runs along the skyline to the right with church spires and clustered rooftops, with the lower town along the waterline below. In the foreground a fishing boat with a patched sail, a rowing boat and a larger two-masted vessel under full sail all labor through the waves, and heavy cumulus clouds fill the sky.

Quebec was then the political center of the Province of Canada and one of the main ports of British North America, shipping timber and grain to Europe. The plate belongs to the series of views of the world's cities and landscapes issued by the Bibliographisches Institut for German readers.

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