William Sidney Mount papers
name: label: Creator
content: Mount, William Sidney, 1807-1868
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- Stony Brook
label: Topic
content: Genre painting -- 19th century
label: Topic
content: Art, American -- New York (State)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection purchased by Theodore Stebbins, Jr. and lent to AAA for microfilming, December 1967.
creator: label: Creator
content: Mount, William Sidney, 1807-1868
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter; Stony Brook, Long Island. Born Setauket, L.I. to Thomas Shephard and Julia Hawkins Mount. Studied at National Academy of Design and with Henry Inman. Importance as an early genre painter. His three brothers and sister Ruth were also artistic and musical.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Microfilm reel
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1830-1860
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.mounwilp
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel N731 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to the lender, Theodore Stebbins, Jr., after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Five pencil drawings (2 signed), one pen, ink and watercolor drawing, and one watercolor drawing by William Sidney Mount; and a pencil drawing by Shepard Alonzo Mount; 13 letters and 2 notes written by William Sidney Mount, and letters written by his brothers Shepard, Robert, and Henry, his mother Julia, many which mention William, and 5 letters from Thomas S. Mount to William. In addition, there are clippings, diplomas and a photograph of William S. Mount.