Painting – Page 2 – PRIMARY SOURCES DATABASE

Livre des profits ruraux – caption: ‘Agricultural labours’

February 7, 2025

0

Image of late Medieval Ages showing "agricultural activities taking place in a landscape, including digging, reaping, sheep shearing, ploughing, chopping wood, and killing cattle."Image taken from Livre des profits ruraux. Originally published/produ...

L’Assemblée des six comtés à Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, en 1837

December 6, 2024

0

L'Assemblée des six-comtés, a painting depicting the Assembly of the Six Counties, held in Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada, on October 23 and October 24, 1837. ...

Montreal in 1832

April 30, 2024

0

Painting of Montreal in 1832 by James Duncan ...

Elijah Boardman

April 30, 2024

0

Portrait of Elijah Boardman, a merchant in the Thirteen Colonies around 1745. ...

Gentleman Farmer

April 30, 2024

0

An illustration depicting the yeoman and the gentleman farmer, social groups present in the Thirteen Colonies around 1745. ...

George Washington

April 30, 2024

0

A portrait of a young George Washington, prominent individual in the Thirteen Colonies around 1745. ...

Benjamin Franklin

April 30, 2024

0

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin, prominent individual in the Thirteen Colonies around 1745. ...

Les Filles du roi / King’s daughters

April 30, 2024

0

Painting by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (before 1927) depicting a scene of the arrival of women destined to marry French-Canadian farmers in Quebec City in 1667. It portrays Jean Talon and François de Laval, vicar apostolic of New France welcoming ...

Marguerite Bourgeoys

April 30, 2024

0

Portrait of Marguerite Bourgeoys a prominent individual in New France who opened the first school in Montréal in 1658, painted by Pierre le Ber. ...

Major John Norton (Mohawk Chief Teyoninhokarawen)

April 30, 2024

0

"Portrait Of Major John Norton (Teyoninhokarawen). Historical paintings portraying Indigenous people are frequently loaded with harmful, colonial stereotypes. Major John Norton was a British colonial officer of mixed European and Cherokee heritage w...