Quebec City Pictorial Map, The City of Quebec with Historical Notes, 1932

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Quebec City Pictorial Map, The City of Quebec with Historical Notes, 1932

Name: Quebec City Pictorial Map, The City of Quebec with Historical Notes, 1932
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14193
Price: 765 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1932
Kind: Maps
Size: 63.8 × 84.8 cm (25.1 × 33.4 in)
Condition: Good. A crisp, colorful example, originally issued folded, with only very light wear along the fold lines. The original envelope shows short edge tears and minor soiling, consistent with age and handling.
Period: The Twentieth Century
Places: Canada
Reference: BG-14193

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

The City of Quebec drawn as a pictorial map, an original color-printed sheet of 1932 by Samuel Herbert Maw, titled "The City of Quebec with Historical Notes." It belongs to the interwar tradition of decorative, information-rich city maps associated with MacDonald Gill, and the sheet is accompanied by its original publisher's envelope, with the title and artist printed on the front.

The city is shown in a bird's-eye, deliberately playful manner, with buildings, streets, parks and the walls of the upper town drawn in miniature and printed in yellow, green and blue. The star-shaped Citadel with its flag lies at the left, the St. Lawrence runs along the lower edge with a steamer on the water, and numerous panels of historical notes are scattered across the streets. A row of shields stands beneath the title, and large heraldic corner pieces carry the names of Wolfe, Frontenac, Champlain and Cartier. A bold compass rose at the upper right sets north toward the right of the sheet. A printed note at the lower right states that the map was begun in 1926 and completed in 1932, and that its dimensions and proportions are "not to be taken seriously," the aim being to amuse as well as instruct.

Maw was an English-born artist who produced several pictorial maps in Canada.

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