Recherche dans la collection - Jacob Mountain collection [graphic material, textual record]

The warrants, 1793 and 1805, were received in 1936 and 1939 respectively. The correspondence, 1794-1795, was copied from the typescript held by the Episcopal Archives at Bishopsthorpe, Quebec, Que.
Documents created in Canada and England.
The print portrait of Jacob Mountain is framed in an elaborate frame topped by a miniature bishop's mitre.
There is a second copy of the print portrait of Jacob Mountain of unknown provenance.
There are three other print portraits of George Jehoshaphat Mountain of unknown provenance. One is from the London Illustrated News of 6 October, 1820; another is by James Henry Lynch and the third is a second copy of the portrait already mentioned.
The portraits of Jacob and Sarah Mountain were exhibited in A Place in History: Twenty Years of Acquiring Paintings, Drawings and Prints at the National Archives of Canada, 1991, and included in the published catalogue: numbers: 45, 46 and 47.

The red and black chalk drawing of Jacob Mountain comes from family descent - great-great-great-great grandson of Mountain. The previous owner was Abbott & Holder from England (dealers in watercolours, drawings and prints).

The original textual records from which copies were made are located in the Episcopal Archives, Bishopsthorpe, Quebec, Que.

Art work has been photographed in black & white.

There is material relating to George Jehoshaphat Mountain, second son of Jacob, in MG24 J 22.