Vuë de la haute Ville a Quebec avec la Place pour aller a Cavalier du Moulin. = Prospect der obern Stadt zu Quebec auf dem Plaz wo man nach dem Mühlen Cavalier gehet. / Gravé par Francois Xav. Habermann.

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Title: Vuë de la haute Ville a Quebec avec la Place pour aller a Cavalier du Moulin. = Prospect der obern Stadt zu Quebec auf dem Plaz wo man nach dem Mühlen Cavalier gehet. / Gravé par Francois Xav. Habermann.
Alternate Title: Prospect der obern Stadt zu Quebec auf dem Plaz wo man nach dem Mühlen Cavalier gehet
Date: [between 1770 and 1778]
Creator: Habermann, Franz Xaver, 1721-1796, artist.
Notes: View of a crowded town square in upper Québec City, Québec. Pedestrians can be seen carrying goods, conversing and guiding a horse-drawn wagon. A group of soldiers is also shown leading what appears to be several prisoners past several onlooking hunters.; Part of a series of imagined views of North American cities titled 'Collection des Prospects' by Franz Xaver Habermann (1721-1796) and Balthasar Friedrich Leizelt (1755-1812) that were issued in Augsburg, Germany around the time of the American Revolution.; This is a fictitious representation of Québec City that likely borrowed features from several unidentified views of major European cities.; "Vuë de la haute Ville a Quebeck." appears written in reverse along the upper margin.
Names and Subjects: Pedestrians--Québec--Québec City.; Plazas--Québec--Québec City.; Prints shelf.; Québec (Québec)--Pictorial works.
Genre: Engravings Hand-colored 1770-1780.; Etchings Hand-colored 1770-1780.; Intaglio prints 1770-1780.; Vues d'optique 1770-1780.
ID: 6037
Barcode: B9397926
Physical Description: 1 print : etching and engraving, hand-colored ; 30.5 x 42 cm
Repository: William L. Clements Library
Date Added/Updated: 2018-09-05 12:41:14

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Image Size: 10880 x 7434
File Size: 4 MB
Record: 6037
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Full citation: "Vuë de la haute Ville a Quebec avec la Place pour aller a Cavalier du Moulin. = Prospect der obern Stadt zu Quebec auf dem Plaz wo man nach dem Mühlen Cavalier gehet. / Gravé par Francois Xav. Habermann.". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-6037/wcl006110. In the digital collection William L. Clements Library Image Bank. William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. July 19, 2025.