The Ottawa River at Bytown, London 1840

Steel engraving published in London in 1840 by George Virtue as part of Nathaniel Parker Willis’s two-volume travelogue Canadian Scenery Illustrated (1840). The print captures a key historical moment in the wild Canadian landscape, where the then small logging settlement of Bytown later grew into the capital of Canada, Ottawa.

London, 1840, steel engraving, 20 x 26 cm