John Sparrow Thompson family art [graphic material]

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John Sparrow Thompson family art [graphic material]

Item ID number:

165731

Hierarchical level:

Series

Date:

ca. 1850-1895.

Reference:

R5240-1-3-E

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

165731

Context of this record:

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Sir John Thompson fonds

John Sparrow Thompson family art
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Series includes:

96 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

ca. 1850-1895.

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Place of creation:

Various places

Extent:

1 painting : miniature: watercolour on ivory.
18 watercolours.
15 drawings.
677 prints reproductions.
3 objects : encased in lockets : 1 painted photograph: watercolour, gouache over silver gelatin print ; 1 monochrome albumen print ; 1 ribbon

Language of material:

English

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Series includes one posthumous portrait miniature of Sir John Sparrow Thompson painted by Bonne de Bock, ca. 1895.

Two portraits are of Sir John Thompson in the form of an 1894 posthumous painted photograph by an unknown artist after a 1891 photograph by William James Topley and a monochrome photograph of Lady Thompson likely from around 1870, the time of her marriage to John Thompson. Both are encased in elaborate lockets. Sir John Thompson sits in a locket with top cover encrusted with semi-precious jewels and seed pearls with a pait of hair within the inner locket. Lady Thompson is set in a sterling silver locket with engraved motifs. Both have some engraved inscriptions.

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.

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Some items on-line on Mikan at item level. (Electronic) 1949-078; R5240-1 to R5240-2 (90: Open)

(Paper) 1949-078; R5240-2005 ; Accession files. (90: Open)

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General Note:

Material likely collected by a member of the immediate family.

Source:

Private

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1949-078 PIC
2014-00203-7
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access through an art archivist.

Volume [R5240] 1--2

[Consultation 90 Open]

1 Item no. assigned by LAC 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

2 Item no. assigned by LAC 2

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [1949-078] BK-314

[Consultation 90 Open]

A299-01/X2 Item no. assigned by LAC 534

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1949-078]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-117337 Item no. assigned by LAC 534

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Copyright expired. Credit: National Archives of Canada.

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John Sparrow Thompson family art [graphic material]

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