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An interior photographic study of a nun in a white habit seated and holding a bird in her lap

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Date:

1966-1977

Reference:

R3251

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3007914

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Harold Samson Pfeiffer fonds

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An interior photographic study of a nun in a white habit seated and holding a bird in her lap
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Date(s):

1966-1977

Place:

Ottawa, Ontario

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Place of printing:

Toronto, Ontario

Extent:

1 reproduction : two colour offset lithography on coated card (one side)
Support 23.000 x 11.500 cm

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A National Film Board promotional postcard containing a reproduction of an interior photographic study by John de Visser, R.C.A. Depicted is a nun wearing a white habit seated on a bench(?) close to the entrance/doorway of a wood frame building - possibly a barn or some other type of agricultural structure. She is looking down at and caressing a bird that she is holding in her lap. This postcard is part of a file containing six pieces of visual/design reference material created and/or acquired by H. Pfeiffer for a "Nuns Series" of sculpture
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Artist: De Visser, John, 1930-

Artist: Romanovsky, Aaron
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Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed., Inscription: recto, in the plate above the reproduced photographic image, in green printing ink, t.l.: (The NFB symbol); in black printing ink beside the NFB symbol, t.l. to t.r.: NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA"; verso, in black printing ink, t.l. to t.r.: "NATIONAL FILM BOARD / Photo by John de Visser (--) POST CARD/CARTE POSTALE / Design by Aaron Romanovsky (-) Lithography by Herzig-Somerville Ltd." (partial transcription)
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postcard / carte postale
Source:

Private

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00031
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Graphic (art)

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Item no. assigned by LAC [R3251] 31

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R3251-31
Copyright: National Film Board of Canada, Ottawa

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