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View of the Harbor of St Pierre, Newfoundland, Early French Coastal Engraving
€340
$380 · £290
Original print, not a reproduction.
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- Date
- Not stated
- Sheet size
- 9.9 × 15.8 in (25.2 × 40.2 cm)
- 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.
- Collection
- Harbours & ports
- Stock no.
- f_47986432
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.
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