de Vaucouleurs’ photographic study of the Magellanic Clouds revisited with CCD images obtained with Canon telephoto lens from ESO La Silla Observatory. Panel A: full wide-field mosaic of the Clouds obtained with a Canon 50 lens as described in Besla et al. (2016). The main features described throughout this paper are marked with letters: The Wing (label a), the outer arm B (label b) and a well-known foreground Galactic cirrus crossing the field (label c); panel B: zoomed CCD image of the SMC obtained in the same run with a Canon 200 lens showing the shell-like feature (label d) in the outer arm, the SMC south-west plume (label g) and the two globular clusters NGC 362 (label e) and 47 Tuc (label f); panel C: for a comparison, the sketch based on the 1950s photographic plate material of the Clouds from de Vaucouleurs & Freeman (1972) already showed all the features detected in our modern deep CCD imaging (©AAS. Reproduced with permission).