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Hunter's Eastern Townships scenery, Canada East
Title
Hunter's Eastern Townships scenery, Canada East / by W.S. Hunter, Junior.
Publication
Montreal : Printed and published by John Lovell, St. Nicholas Street, 1860.
Physical Description
[2], 36 pages, [15] leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 35 cm
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in publisher's original blind-tooled purple cloth. Title stamped in gilt on cover. Inscribed: Presented to Elizabeth Sarah Fourdrinier by Asa Bernard Foster. Shefford, Canada East. 14 June 1860. "Wiew" on plate 10 not corrected. No separate captions in corners of plate 14.
Notes
Lithography by John Henry Bufford; after William S. Hunter.
With an added lithographed title page.
All plates, except the title, are oval in shape and have a small colored vignette, with caption, in each corner.
Text printed in two columns.
Variant and related titles
Eastern Townships scenery, Canada East
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
I. Geographical and topographical features of the Eastern Townships
II. Brief sketch of the history of the Townships; the early settler, and the farmer of the present day
III. Climate and soil
IV. Principal fish of the Eastern Townships
V. Principal wild animals
VI. Birds, fowl
VII. Forest and fruit trees, wild and cultivated
VIII. Geology and minerals
IX. Principal towns and villages
X. Description of plates.
Plates: Railways by which the Eastern Townships of Canada may be reached
Lake Memphremagog, C.E.
View from Sugar Loaf looking North Lake Memphremagog
Mountain Scenery, Eastern Townships C.E.
Owls Head, Round Island Whet Stone Island, & Magoon Point
View on the River Saint Francis C.E.
River St. Francis near Richmond & Melbourne
Confluence of the Massauwippi with River Saint Francis
The Pinnacle looking North from the Little Lake, Barnston, C.E.
Wiew of Owls head from Sugar Loaf Mountain looking South, Lake Memphremagog, C.E.
Falls on the Coaticook River
Lake Massauwippi
View from the Artist's residence
View on the St. Francis near Sherbrooke.
References
Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 632
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Lithographs - Hand-colored - 1860.
Lithographs - 1860.
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