Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
February 1779
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 42r
Notes:
On list of "Paintings and Drawings done."
Du Simitière's original sketch of Charles Thomson (1729-1824) is in the Library Company of Philadelphia (961.F.23d).
A profile portrait of Thomson by Du Simitière was one of a set of fourteen engraved and published in Paris by Benoît-Louis Prévost (ca. 1735-ca. 1804) in 1781 as Collection des Portraits des Généraux, Ministres & Magistrats qui se sont rendus célèbres dans la Révolution des Treize Etats-Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale.
