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Sydney Prior Hall fonds [graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1878-ca 1890.

Reference:

R8195-0-X-E

Type of material:

Art, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

185886

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Sydney Prior Hall fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1878-ca 1890.

Place of creation:

Canada

Added country of publication:

United Kingdom

Extent:

285 drawings pencil, pastel, opaque white, charcoal.
18 watercolours.
5 prints lithograph, wood engravings.
4 photographs b&w.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French

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Fonds consists of works from a scrapbook entitled "Canada 1878, Northwest 1881" consisting of drawings and watercolours done by Sydney Prior Hall while on a tour of Canada with the Marquis of Lorne in 1878, when he arrived in company with his wife, the Princess Louise, to take up his post as Governor-General of Canada, and while on a tour of the Canadian Northwest with the Marquis of Lorne in 1881 to promote settlement and to views the progress of railway construction. Photographs attributed to Sydney Prior Hall are depictions of indigenous people associated with the Buffalo Bill Show. One lithograph and three wood engravings after Sydney Prior Hall depict the tour of Canada by the Marquis of Lorne, as well as winter scenes. One other print is entitled "In the Great North-West with the Marquis of Lorne : the Pow-Wow at Black Feet Crossing, September 10 1881". The fonds also includes a number of watercolours done of members of Buffalo Bill's travelling Wild West show, including one portrait of Sitting Bull, done while the show was in London, England in 1887. Hall was a journalist-artist with the London Graphic, and many of the drawings were reproduced as wood engravings in the Graphic in both 1878 and 1881. Published accounts of the tour to the Canadian Northwest appeared in both the Graphic and in the Edinburgh Scotsman.

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Hall, Sydney Prior, 1842-1922
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Depicted: Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of, 1845-1914

Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of, 1845-1914
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Hall, Sydney Prior, 1842-1922 : Sydney Prior Hall, journalist, painter and illustrator, was born in Newmarket, Suffolk, England in 1842. He studied art first with his father, and then at the Royal Academy in London, England, as a student of the artist Arthur Hughes. Hall was an illustrator, his most famous collaboration being on "Tom Browne's School Days" with Arthur Hughes. He became an artist-journalist for the London Graphic in 1870, and covered the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. He came to the attention of Queen Victoria because of his popular military paintings, and he executed works for her which are now in the Royal Collection, Windsor. Subsequently he accompanied the Queen's daughter, Princess Louise, and her husband, the Marquis of Lorne, to Canada in 1878, and the Marquis of Lorne to the Canadian Northwest in 1881. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1875 to 1904. He died in 1922. Simon Houfe, The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1914 (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1978)

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(Paper) : Artist file available containing inventory listing with original order of items from scrapbook included. (90: Open)

(Electronic) : all items described online and linked to MIKAN fonds record. (90: Open)

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Custodial history:

Scrapbook acquired directly from Sydney Prior Hall through PAC's London Office (H. P. Biggar) in 1917. The scrapbook was dismantled sometime prior to 1972.

Wood engraving acquired from New Mexico dealer Richard Fitch.

Availability of other formats note:

The copy negative numbers for the items digitized are C-012861 C-011068 C-012984 C-12918 (ICON)

Subject heading:

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SUBJ. - First Nations, General

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1984-045 X PIC
1986-011 PIC
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [1984-045] A091-02

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

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Drawings, watercolours, prints and photographs: no restrictions on use or reproduction. Copyright expired. Credit: Library and Archives Canada.

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