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1991-178, Print
A View of the City of QUEBEC, the Capital of Canada
1991-178, Print

A View of the City of QUEBEC, the Capital of Canada

Date1759
Artist/Maker Peter Benazech
Artist/Maker Capt. Hervey Smyth
OriginEngland, London
MediumLine engraving and etching on laid paper
DimensionsOverall: 17 3/4 × 23 1/8in. (45.1 × 58.7cm) Other (Plate): 36 × 53.3cm (14 3/16 × 21in.)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1991-178
DescriptionThe lower margin reads: "A VIEW OF THE CITY OF QUEBEC, the Capital of Canada,/Vue de la ville du QUEBEC, Capitale du Canada./Taken partly from Pointe des Peres, and partly on Board the Vanguard Man of War, by Captain Hervey Smyth./Prise en partie de la Pointe des Peres, et en partie abord de l'Avantgarde Vaisseau de Guerre, par le Cap.e Hervey Smythe./1. Genl. Wolfe Landing/To the Right Honourable William Pitt, one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council & Principal Secretary of State./2. St. Charles river/These SIX VIEWS of the most remarkable Places in the Gulf and River of St. Laurence are most humbly Inscribed, by his most Obediant humble servant Hervey Smyth./Aid du Camp to the late Gen.l Wolfe/London Printed for John Bowles at N.o 13 in Cornhill, Robert Sayer at N.o 53 in Fleet Street, Thos. Jefffreys the corner of St. Martins Lane in the Strand, Carrington Bowles at N.o 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, and Henry Parker at N.o 82 in Cornhill."
Label TextThis print was a part of a series of six prints depicting areas on the St. Lawrence River by Hervey Smyth who had been the aid-de-camp to General Wolfe. The landscape was later engraved and included in the Scenographia Americana in 1768, a series of twenty-eight prints depicting different scenes in America.