'Fall at Montmorenci' [Montmorency, Quebec]

Mounted with ZBA4885 and ZBA4886 on page 19 of Fanshawe's West Indies, North American and Borneo scrapbook (ZBA4855).

Lithograph depicting the Montmorency Falls on the Montmorency River, Quebec, Canada.They are on the boundary between the borough of Beauport, Quebec City, and Boischatel, about 12 km from the heart of old Quebec City. The falls, 84 metres (275 ft) high, are the highest in the province of Quebec and 30 m (98 ft) higher than Niagara Falls. The area surrounding them is now protected within the Montmorency Falls Park (Parc de la Chute-Montmorency).

The falls, at 84 metres (275 ft) high, (and 150 feet wide) are the highest in the province of Quebec and 30 m (98 ft) higher than Niagara Falls.

The original sketch would have been made by Edward Fanshawe in the 1820s (circa 1823–26), the print probably after 1854.

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ID:	ZBA4887
Type:	Print
Materials:	Lithograph
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Fanshawe, Edward Gennys; Fanshawe, Edward
Date made:	circa 1854
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 148 mm x 190 mm
Parts:	West Indies, North American and Borneo scrapbook (Album) Shipping off a port town and an offshore fort, San Salvador, Brazil (Print) (ZBA4856) 'Forte King George, Tobago.' (Print) (ZBA4860) 'Rockey Bay, Tobago.' [Rockly Bay] (Print) (ZBA4861) 'Courtam, Tobago.' [Courland] (Print) (ZBA4862) 'Bocca Grande, Trinidad' (Print) (ZBA4863) 'Grenada' (Print) (ZBA4864) Bay of Cariscoa, Grenada (Print) (ZBA4865) 'Fort George, Grenada' (Print) (ZBA4866) 'Berkshire Hill and Kingstown, St Vincents' (Print) (ZBA4867) 'Dorsetshire Hill, St Vincents' (Print) (ZBA4868) 'Roseau, Dominica' (Print) (ZBA4869) 'From Morne Fortune St. Lucia' (Print) (ZBA4870) The Pitons, St Lucia (Print) (ZBA4871) 'Pigeon Island' [St Lucia] (Print) (ZBA4872) 'From Shirley Heights, Antigua.' (Print) (ZBA4873) 'Dow's Hill, Antigua' (Print) (ZBA4874) 'Falmouth Bay, Antigua' (Print) (ZBA4875) 'Freemans Bay' [Antigua] (Print) (ZBA4876) 'Basseterre, St Kitts' (Print) (ZBA4877) 'Entrance of the Harbour of St. Thomas's' (Print) (ZBA4878) 'Kingston Bay, from near Port Royal, Jamaica' (Print) (ZBA4879) 'Off Morant, Jamaica' (Print) (ZBA4880) 'Kingston Bay from Ft. Nugent - Jamaica.' (Print) (ZBA4881) 'Port Antonio - Jamaica' (Print) (ZBA4882) 'Rio Bueno, Jamaica' (Print) (ZBA4883) 'From Signal Hill - Bermuda' (Print) (ZBA4884) 'Iceberg' (Print) (ZBA4885) 'Staten Island' [New York ?] (Print) (ZBA4886) 'Fall at Montmorenci' [Montmorency, Quebec] (Print) (ZBA4887) '7 Miles west of Gannequis' [Gananoque, Canada] (Print) (ZBA4888) 'Lake St. Peters, St Laurence' [Lake St Peter, Ontario, Canada] (Print) (ZBA4889) 'Rivière de Loup' [Quebec] (Print) (ZBA4890) 'St Ann's Church' [possibly at Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada] (Print) (ZBA4891) 'Looking up Niagara River from near Fort George' [Ontario, Canada] (Print) (ZBA4892) 'Near By Town' [Ottawa, Canada] (Print) (ZBA4893) 'Falls of Niagara' [Ontario, Canada] (Print) (ZBA4894) 'Straits of Sunda' (Print) (ZBA4895) 'Borneo. Looking down the River from our house' [Brunei, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4896) 'Borneo. Looking up the River from our house' [Brunei, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4897) 'N. Coast of Sumatra' (Watercolour) (ZBA4898) 'Looking up the Borneo River from Chermin Island' [Brunei, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4899) 'Coast of Borneo - Mr Brooke's Territory.' [Sarawak, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4900) 'Village of the Stang Tribe' [Sarawak, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4901) 'Sarawak' [Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4902) 'Keeney Balloo S.E.' [Mount Kinabalu, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4903) 'Village & head house of the Segu Tribe / on the Manuk or Segur River' [Sarawak, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4904) 'From Quop Mountain / The Village of the Sunta Dyaks' [Sarawak, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4905)

'Fall at Montmorenci' [Montmorency, Quebec]

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