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Portrait of F. N. G. Starr, 3/4 length, standing, full face, left hand in pocket
Signed photograph portrait of Frederic Newton Gisborne Starr (1867-1934), Canadian surgeon and distinguished professor of surgery at the University of Toronto. He was one of the founders of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, of which he also served as President. Photograph taken by a Toronto photography studio.
This file contains a photogravure print of a portrait of Rev. John Bethune. Note beneath the image reads: "Rev. John Bethune, Acting Principal of McGill University, 1835-1846. From a painting in possession of Strachan Bethune, Esq., Montreal."
Reproduction of portrait painting of F. J. Shepherd, half-length, to left, hands in pockets
Rev. Daniel Coussirat carte de visite
This file contains a carte de visite for Rev. Daniel Coussirat from 1884 and a newspaper clipping of an obituary from 8 January, 1907. The carte de visite is addressed to Madame de Vasson (Louisa), with a note in Greek beneath.
This file contains a carte de visite for S. Rondeau and includes a note: "Ave mille bons souhaits, S. Rondeau, 24/3/82."
Walter Crane Sketchbook Collection
The collection consists of six of Walter Crane’s sketchbooks. Two of the sketchbooks date to the summer of 1864, and the remaining four date to the summers of 1897, 1901, 1903, and 1905. The collection’s dates offer a contrast between Crane’s early and later career as an artist. The contents feature his preliminary designs, pictorial observations of the world, and textual notes.
Crane’s sketchbooks are filled with landscapes and towns and building interiors and exteriors from Crane’s life in England and travels to Ireland. Aligned with Crane’s commissioned and published works, the sketchbooks include sketches for his book designs, a heraldic eagle, and plans for a panel painting or frieze. Flora, fauna, men, women, children, Greco-Roman figures and architectural details make up the wide range of subjects covered in the sketchbooks.
The drawings range from Crane’s rough ideas expressed in his preliminary sketches and line drawings to tonal drawings and studies of individuals, landscapes, and flowers. The drawing techniques play with perspective, topography, bodily gesture, facial expression, tone, line, outline, form, and colour.
Crane’s notations appear throughout the sketchbooks, including on the sketches themselves and on their facing pages. He also hand-wrote inspirational excerpts from poems and essays which includes quotes from Charles Kingsley and John Ruskin works.
Between blank and torn pages, the medium for the textual and visual content shifts between pen and pencil on paper. Several landscapes are full-page watercolours on paper.
Crane, Walter, 1845-1915