From an engraving in John Knox’s Hist. Journal of the Campaigns in North America (1757-1760), London, 1769. An engraving from Entick is given in the preceding chapter. There is a head of Wolfe in London Mag. (1759), p. 584.
J. C. Smith, in his Brit. Mezzotint Portraits, notes four different prints (vol. ii. 783; iii. 1027, 1345, the last by H. Smith, engraved by Spooner; and iv. 1750), but he does not reproduce either.
Parkman (Montcalm and Wolfe, ii.) gives a picture of Wolfe in early youth—weak enough in aspect—which follows a photograph from an original portrait owned by Admiral Warde.
Wright, in his Life of Wolfe, gives a photograph of the same. See Ibid., p. 604, for an account of various portraits and memorials.
The common picture representing him standing and in profile is engraved in Parkman’s Historical Handbook of the Northern Tour; in the Eng. ed. of Warburton’s Conquest of Canada, etc.
SIEGE OF QUEBEC, 1759.
Reproduced from the map in Miles’s Canada, called “Plan of the St. Lawrence River from Sillery to the Fall of Montmorency, with the operations of the siege of Quebec, 1759,” which has a corner “View of the action gained by the English, Sept. 13, 1759, near Quebec.” This map is a reduction of one engraved by Jefferys, and dedicated to Pitt, entitled “Authentic plan of the River St. Lawrence from Sillery to the Fall of Montmorenci, with the operations of the siege of Quebec, under the command of Vice-Admiral Saunders and Major-General Wolfe, down to the fifth of September, 1759, drawn by a captain in his Majesty’s navy.” The sideplan is called “View of the action gained by the English Sept. 13, 1759, near Quebec, brought from thence by an officer of distinction.” This was also inserted by Jefferys in his History of the French Dominion in America, London, 1760, p. 131. The same map is given in Entick’s General Hist. of the Late War, London, 1770 (3d ed.), iv. 107; and a similar one is in the American Atlas. Jefferys repeats this map in his General Topography of North America and the West Indies, London, 1768 (no. 18), and adds another (no. 21), called “A correct plan of the environs of Quebec and the battle fought 13 Sept., 1759,” which is accompanied by a superposed “second plate,” showing the disposition of the forces on the Plains of Abraham. This plan had already appeared separately in Journal of the siege of Quebec, to which is annexed a correct plan of the environs of Quebec, and of the battle fought on the 13th September, 1759, together with a particular detail of the French lines and batteries, and also of the encampments, batteries, and attacks of the British army, etc. Engraved from original survey by Thomas Jefferys [London, 1760], 16 pp. (Carter-Brown, iii. no. 1,276.)
The maps given in James Grant’s British Battles, ii. 91, and in Cassell’s United States, are seemingly based on Jefferys’.