Title
An East View of MONTREAL, in Canada. = Vue Orientale de MONTRE_AL, en Canada. / Drawn on the SPOT by Thomas Patten ; Engraved by P. Canot.
Creator
Canot, Pierre Charles, 1710-1777, printmaker.
Publication details
[London] : Published according to Act of Parliament Novr 11 1762 by Thos Jefferys at Charing Cross., [November 11 1762]
Physical details
1 print : etching and engraving ; platemark 36.6 x 53.8 cm, on sheet 42.2 x 58.7 cm sheet
Description
Ships on the St Lawrence River men rowing boats nearby; the city of Montreal in the distance. Item bears key below image: 1. General Hospital; 2. The Recollects; 3. S. Sulpicius; 4. The Nunnery; 5. The Jesuits Church; 6. The Fort.
Place
Montreal (Quebec)
Additional information
A print from the same plate is in the British Museum 1917,1208.4295. The British Museum's comment reads: The 'Scenographia Americana' was a series of twenty-eight plates of views of North America and the West Indies, published by John Bowles, Thomas Jefferys, Robert Sayer and Henry Parker in 1768. Several of the plates had been published before: for example, Thomas Pownall published six in the series 'Six Remarkable Views in the Provinces of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania in North America' in 1761. An expanded series of seventy-four prints later appeared under the same title'.
Other persons
Patten, Thomas, active 1762-1785, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.119.42.a.