City Views & Plans
View of the Harbor of St Pierre, Newfoundland – Early French Coastal Engraving
$380
€340 · dollar price at today's exchange rate
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- Kind
- City Views & Plans
- Size
- 25.2 × 40.2 cm (9.9 × 15.8 in)
- Condition
- Fair. Fair condition overall. Even age-related toning throughout. Original vertical folds visible, as issued. Some creasing and light edge wear, with small marginal losses and soft corners consistent with age. Plate mark visible.
- Places
- Canada
- Reference
- BG-14129-36
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 roadstead of the island of Saint-Pierre near Newfoundland, an original French copper engraving of the eighteenth century, lettered below the image "Vue de la Rade de l'Isle de St. Pierre proche de Terre neuve". A designer's credit ("delineavit") appears at the lower left.
The view looks over a wide, calm bay from a low, rocky shore. At the left, a large spruce stands beside a small thatched building and a fenced yard, with a boat and a seated figure in the corner. In the center, a group of men stand and talk on the beach, one pointing, while a dog sits nearby. At the right, a fishing stage on tall stilts with a pitched roof extends over the water above a pile of logs, barrels and a beached boat with a furled sail, and men work around it. In the distance, rocky islets and a sailing ship lie under a sky of broken clouds.
Saint-Pierre was a French fishing station off the southern coast of Newfoundland, and the stages and drying facilities shown here belong to the cod fishery that made it valuable to France.