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other painted by Iliglimore, now in tlio National portrait gallery. West's great painting of Wolfe as a boy study- 

 ing a map of the battle of Blenheim was made in 1775, but it is partly imaginary in some resiiects. See Wright, 

 C04, 605. Knox's "' .lourual " has an engraved portrait reproduced in '• Nar. and Crit. Hist, of Am.," v. 541. Hart, 

 " Fall of New France," has portraits of Boscawen, Wolfe and Amherst. See wfra, last paragraph of this section. 

 Parkman, in '■ Montcalm and Wolfe," reproduced the Warde portrait. Warburton, in '' Conquest of Canada," has 

 a frontispiece representing him standing with his right arm extended and giving only his profile — a very common 

 picture in works relating to his times. It is described as " from a scarce contemporary print." There is an inferior 

 portrait of Wolfe in the Parliamentary library, in profile, engraved from Jlr. Isaac Gorsol's model by .J. Miller. T 

 know of no portraits in Canada of Duchambon, Drurour, or Vanquolain, or other persons whose names are men- 

 tioned in connection with Louisbourg. 



In " Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast " (Now York, 1875), by Samuel Adam Drake, already men- 

 tioned as the autlior of a little work on the taking of Louisbourg in 17-15, there is some interesting information 

 respecting York and Kittery Point, famous as the home of Pastor Moody and Sir William Pepperrell. Illustra- 

 tions are added of Kittery Point, of Sir William's old mansion and of a portrait of the latter, which is hanging in the 

 large hall of the Essex institute, at Salem, and is asserted by Drake to have been painted in 1751 by Smibert when 

 the baronet was in London. It " represents him in scarlet coat, waistcoat and breeches, a smooth shaven face and 

 powdered periwig; the waistcoat richly gold embroidered, as was then the fashion, was worn long, descending 

 almost to tlie knee, and formed the most conspicuous article of dress. In one hand Sir William grasps a truncheon, 

 and in the back-ground the painter has depicted tlie siege of Louisbourg." The " Memorial History of Boston" 

 (ii. 114) contains an engraving of the same picture, of which, however, according to the editor of the "Nar. and 

 Crit. Hist, of Am," (v. 435, îi), 'be artist is unknown. Tho work just cited gives an engraving after a painting owned 

 by Mrs. Anna H. C. Howard, of Brooklyn, N.Y., wbicli descended to her from Pepperrell, and was painted by 

 Smibert. It is al.so engraved in Parson's "Pepperrell," Drake's "Boston," and the " N. E. Hist" and "General 

 Reg.," Jan., 1866, where Dr. Parsons gives a genealogy of the Pepperrell family. He gives a list of Pepperrell's 

 descendants in his " Life," pp. ."35-341. Also a view of the Pepperrell mansion at Kittery, p. 329. See Lamb's 

 " Homes of America, 1879," " Magazine of Am. Hist.," ii. 673 ; ' Appleton's Journal,' xi. 65. 



Dr. Francis Parkman, in his papers in the " Atlantic Monthly " (March, 1891) gives a graphic description of 

 the present appearance of the picturesque locality in Maine made famous b}' its associations with Sir William. 

 Kittery Point bears the name of a little village in England, and as it was founded in 1623 justly claims the honour 

 of being tlie first and oldest town in Blaine. See chapters iv and x of " Nooks and Corners " (Drake). 



"Tlie Fall of New France, 1755-1760," by Gerald E. Hart, with portraits and views in artotype (Montreal, 

 Toronto and New York, 1888), devotes six pages to the victory of 1758. So short an account gives little or no 

 opportunity for doing full justice to the momentous event, which occurred so opportunely for England. Mr. Hart's 

 book is handsomely printed and is chiefly interesting for the excellent portraits and illustrations it gives of men 

 and places famous during the memorable times of which he writes. The portrait of Amherst is a mezzotint by 

 James Watson, after a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, probably in 1763. That of Boscawen, from an engraving 

 by Ravenet from the original painting. That of Wolfe is the very rare mezzotint by C. Spooner, after a sketch by 

 Capt. Harvey Smith, his aide-de-camp. Entinck has similar portraits of Boscawen and Wolfe. See Hart, 166, for 

 references to Wolfe's various portraits. 



XII. LouiSBOura Medals. 



In ' The Transactions of the Quebec Literary and Historical Society ' for 1872-3, No. Ill, appears an interesting 

 paper by Mr. Alfred Sandham on " The Historical Medals of Canada." He tells us that in 1720 the French govern- 

 ment ordered a bronze medal to be struck to commemorate the foundation of the fortress of Louisbourg. Seven 

 medals, according to Sandham, were struck by the English government in commemoration of the taking of Loui.s- 

 bourgin 1758. Wright (" Life of Wolfe," 605-G06) refers only to two of the medals commemorative of the siege of 

 Louisbouig. 



A pamphlet on "The Louisbourg Medals," by Mr. R. W. McLachlan, an ontlmsiastic antiquarian of Montreal, 

 gives us more complete information on the same subject. His list comprises fourteen medals, or six more than 

 those enumerated by Sandliam. Four of them appear in tlie same lists, but Mr. McLachlan doubts the existence 

 of two of Sandham's. Mr. McLachlan gives us tlie names of the makers of the medals in most cases, with an 

 estimate of the value of each. I give illustrations of two of the medals in his valuable collection, in another part 

 of this paper. (See aiipra, sees. II, VII.) Mr. McLachlan gives tlie names of Kirk, Pingo and Pinchbeck as among 

 the principal makers. 



1. Obv. . LuDovicus XV. D. G. Fr. bt Nav. Rbx. Youthful bust of the king, with long hair. Under the bust, 

 which faces to right, Dc Vivier. 



