Cape Smokey, North Shore, Cape Breton
- PDP09761
- Item
- 1933
Part of Jean Donald Gow fonds
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Cape Smokey, North Shore, Cape Breton
Part of Jean Donald Gow fonds
Part of Jean Donald Gow fonds
[Portrait sketches at Cape Breton]
Part of Jean Donald Gow fonds
Part of Jean Donald Gow fonds
Part of Jean Donald Gow fonds
Part of Jean Donald Gow fonds
West Coast Queen Charlotte Island
Part of Jean Donald Gow fonds
Goldstream Flats, Vancouver Island
Part of Jean Donald Gow fonds
Mt. Baker from Old Island Highway
Part of Jean Donald Gow fonds
The item is a small oil sketch. It depicts a cloudy, bright sky with Mount Baker in the background. The foreground shows a field, trees and house rooftops.
Item consists of one framed oil painting by W. J. Paramor depicting a view of Victoria from Seley's Wharf in James Bay. Seley's Wharf was most likely a platform attached to the Australian House (or adjacent building) to the north end of the James Bay Bridge. The view is likely of the Church of Our Lord on Blanshard street.
File consists of 1 sketchbook containing artwork by Margaret Maclure as well as newspaper clippings written by or about Margaret Maclure. Margaret Maclure’s daughter’s name, Catherine Maclure, is inscribed on the front cover; it is possible that Catherine compiled this scrapbook.
The sketchbook contains 28 pencil and watercolour sketches. 27 of the sketches are portraits, some of which are identified by name and others are untitled. There is also 1 watercolour landscape, depicting the front of a boat with totem poles in the background. There are a variety of newspaper clippings interfiled throughout the scrapbook. The sketches and newspaper clippings have various different dates, ranging from 1908 to 1923. Many of the sketches are undated, but assumed to fall within this range.
A number of the portrait sketches appear to be of individuals that Maclure was acquainted with as she identifies them by name. The identified individuals and/or titled works include: Mrs. Henry Hannington; Mrs. Home; Grace Wood Jess; Cathie; Lord Charles Beresford; Dean Davenport; the Bishop of Columbia; Kitty; Miss Denne [sp?] Parker; and A Lady of Decided Opinions. There are also a number of portrait sketches of unnamed Indigenous people. Although the individuals are not named, Maclure often includes inscriptions about the subjects of the drawings.
Also filed within the scrapbook is one handwritten obituary about Margaret Maclure (1938, author unknown) and one photograph of one of Maclure’s sketches.
Portrait of Eliza Rainsford Despard
Item is a framed, painted portrait, of Eliza Rainsford. A card once affixed to the back of the frame reads "Eliza Rainsford daughter of Capt. Rainsford, born 1789, died 1863. Married Philip Despard."
The item is a watercolour sketch of a dinosaur fossil on a plinth. A person in a hat and a stone monument are sketched in the background. The item is attributed to Joseph Despard Pemberton, and his daughter Sophia, and was drawn in October 1892, likely when she was an art student in London. The fossil is possibly based on the Bernissart Iguanodon that was on display in Brussels at that time, but this is only speculation.
Perspective Sketch of Proposed Museum, Archives and Curatorial Block for BC Provincial Government
The item is a large colour pencil sketch of the proposed site of the Royal BC Museum and BC Archives buildings in Victoria, British Columbia. The drawing also includes the Fannin collections building. It is drawn in a north-facing direction, and the Empress Hotel is depicted in the background.
The sketch was drawn by architects Wilkinson and Gillett in 1964 as part of a plan by Premier W.A.C. Bennett to build a new separate provincial museum and archives building that had, until then, existed as part of the BC Legislature Building.
The item is a handmade gift card. There is a coloured pencil drawing of lilies framed inside a pre-made cardboard frame and envelope. The item is attributed to Sophia Pemberton, and was created in 1953.
The item is a coloured pencil drawing of a white lily with an inscription that reads," And trailing clouds of glory do they come from which is their home". The back of the frame reads, "To Dear Ada, March 1954". The artwork is attributed to Sophia Pemberton, and was created in 1954.
The item is a coloured pencil drawing of a maple leaf with the inscription, "'The trembling leaves/Dappling the walk/With light & shade', John Cleveland, 1613-58". The artwork is attributed to Sophia Pemberton. It is dated 1956.
Archives paintings, drawings, and prints collection
Collection consists of paintings, drawings, prints and other artworks collected by the Archives.
British Columbia Archives
Part of Emily Carr art collection
One sketchbook with 43 drawings by Emily Carr. The drawings appear to have been created on her 1929 trip up the west coast of Vancouver Island to Nootka Sound and another in 1930 to Quatsino Sound. They include sketches of landscapes, settlements, beaches, and stylized interpretations of forests and trees, along with a handful of copies she made of First Nations designs on the Captain Jack pole at Yuquot. Several pages have notations about colour, geographical locations or descriptions of scenery.
Part of Emily Carr art collection
One sketchbook with 30 drawings by Emily Carr. The drawings are of First Nations designs and landscapes including Alert Bay dating from 1930 to 1939. The drawings are copied from illustrations in Franz Boas, Primitive Art, published in Oslo, Norway, 1927. Carr copied them as a means of familiarizing herself with the forms and artistic conventions of First Nations monumental art of the Northwest Coast of British Columbia. Information matching each sketch to a page in Primitive Art was provided by Carr scholar Dr Gerta Moray and is filed in the documentation file for PDP05647.
Blank Ontario Drawing Book No. 1.
Part of Emily Carr art collection
One sketchbook with 32 drawings by Emily Carr and 6 blank pages. The drawings are all untitled and have no dates applied. They have been dated by Carr scholars as between 1930 to 1939. The sketches include brief unfinished graphite impressions, stylistic landscapes and forest interiors and some First Nations subject matter. At times the pages hold more than one sketch.
Part of Emily Carr art collection
One sketchbook with 29 pages of drawings by Emily Carr. The drawings are of First Nations subject matter and landscapes.
Part of Emily Carr art collection
One sketchbook with 34 drawings by Emily Carr. The drawings are in the main abstract forest and tree designs and dating from 1930 to 1939.
Part of Emily Carr art collection
One sketchbook with 9 pages of drawings both watercolour and graphite. All are untitled so titles are based on subject matter. Originally the sketchbook would have held many more pages. The back cover is not extant.
Part of Emily Carr art collection
One sketchbook containing 54 pages of drawings or sketches by Emily Carr. The drawings and watercolour sketches principally relate to her 1928 trip to the Gitxsan villages of Gitanyow (Kitwancool), Gitwangak (Kitwanga), Kispiox and other locales in the vicinity and include images of totem poles, villages and landscapes, her renditions of First Nations design motifs.
New Cathedral Door, Victoria, BC.