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National Portrait Gallery, London

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

1936 - Kirk, Sir John, 1832-1922, 1936

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011T/13
Scope and Contents

149 x 202 mm. Photographic copy of a head and shoulders painting by Alexander H. Kirk, 1915. After servingas Chief Officer on the Livingstone Zambesi Expedition of 1858-63, he obtained a position in 1866 as Medical Officer at the British Consulate in Zanzibar. He served in Zanzibar as Political Agent and Consul General from 1873-87. National Portait Gallery photograph.

Dates: 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

National Portrait Gallery Correspondence, 2016 - 2019

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/5/13/2
Scope and Contents A file of letters from Dr. Tarnya Cooper and Paul Cox of the National Portrait Gallery to Roger Law, along with computer printouts of his responding letters, regarding the latter's offer to deposit the Spitting Image Archive with the gallery under the Acceptance in Lieu or Cultural Gift schemes. The items present cover the following: the gallery's inability to accept the archive; their willingness to acquire a few Spitting Image portraits for their collection; and...
Dates: 2016 - 2019
Conditions Governing Access: Restricted. Closed until September 2041, under the Archive’s confidentiality guidelines for sensitive data (in compliance with the Data Protection Act (2018)).
 Item

Portrait of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles by G.F. Joseph, 1817, 1890 - 1899

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 1/88
Scope and Contents

146 x 186 mm. A photographic copy of George Francis Josephs (1764-1846) seated, three quarter length portrait of Raffles in the National Portrait Gallery. Photograph by National Portrait Gallery.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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