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Library Company of Philadelphia (961.F.23d)IMAGE INFORMATION

A picture of Charles Thomson, Esq. Secretary of Congress in black lead, form of a medal for my collection

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.