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Description found in Archives

Title

John Sparrow Thompson family art [graphic material]. 

Series consists of

Arrangement structure

Date(s)

ca. 1850-1895

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 painting : miniature: watercolour on ivory.
18 watercolours.
15 drawings.
677 prints reproductions.

Language of material

English

Scope and content

Series includes one posthumous portrait miniature of Sir John Sparrow Thompson painted by Bonne de Bock, ca. 1895. Series also includes an album of approximately 710 artworks of various media. They have been grouped into ten sections: 1) Landscape views (in Canada, United States and Europe), 2) Architectural views (Europe), 3) Miscellaneous sketches of animals, and miscellaneous subjects, 4) Crimean, Civil War, and miscellaneous warfare scenes, 5) Scenes of Victorian gentry, 6) Love and matrimony, and miscellaneous, 7) Natives in Australia, Canada and the United States, 8) Greeting cards, 9) Scenes from Shakespeare's plays, 10) Portraits of various people, 11) View engraved by Smillie, 12) Views of Nova Scotia, lithographed by Eagar.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)
90: Open
Physical access through an art archivist
.
Graphic (art)
Copy negative C-117337
90: Open
Graphic (art)
90: Open
Box
A299-01/X2
BK-314 Item no. assigned by LAC 534
90: Open
Archival reference no.

Terms of use

Copyright expired. Credit: National Archives of Canada.

Finding aid

Some items on-line on Minisis at item level. 1949-078. (Electronic)

Accession file. 1949-078. (Paper)

Additional information

Material likely collected by a member of the immediate family.

Source

Private

Related control no.

1949-078 PIC

MIKAN no.

165731