'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. See summary of Fanshawe's known American movements with ZBA4856: he took his flagship 'Royal Alfred' to Quebec one summer while C-in-C North America and West Indies, and toured the area, but the exact date remains to be clarified. [PvdM 2/11]

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ID:	ZBA4887
Type:	Print
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Fanshawe, Edward Gennys
Date made:	1870-1873; 1870-73
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 148 mm x 190 mm
Parts:	West Indies, North American and Borneo scrapbook (Album) 'Court House, Berbice' (Print) (ZBA4857) 'Man of War Bay, Tobago' (Print) (ZBA4858) 'W. Point of Man of War Bay' [Tobago] (Print) (ZBA4859) '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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