Sir John Ninian Comper drawings12913994Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-03-12 18:41:43 -0400.Description is written in: English, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library Sir John Ninian Comper drawings Comper, Ninian, 1864-1960 Comper, Ninian, 1864-1960 12913994 English . /repositories/3/resources/1242 100 drawings approximate 1890s-1910s Publication Date

ca. 1890s-1910s

Restrictions on Access

This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.

Scope and content

Includes drawings for stained glass window patterns, furniture designs for churches, drawings of saints, and other detail drawings.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Morrison Hesckscher . Method of acquisition--Donated ;; Date of acquisition--1976, 2016 . Accession number--1976.004, 2017.012.

Biographical sketch

Sir (John) Ninian Comper (10 June 1864- 22 December 1960) was a Scottish-born architect, one of the last great Gothic Revival architects in England.

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