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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.10.1
People
William Rimmer, American (Liverpool, England 1816 - 1879 S. Milford, MA)
Title
Sketch for "To the Charge!"
Other Titles
Former Title: Battle
Former Title: To the Charge (sketch): The Battle Field
Former Title: Battle Field
Former Title: To the Charge
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1874
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231248

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on cardboard
Dimensions
31 x 46.3 cm (12 3/16 x 18 1/4 in.)
framed: 37.8 x 52.7 x 3.8 cm (14 7/8 x 20 3/4 x 1 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: W. Rimmer / sketch / 1874
  • inscription: verso, at the bottom, pencil, signed, in artist's hand: Battle/W. Rimmer.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
From the artist to his daughter, Caroline Hunt Rimmer, at his death, 1879; to her niece Edith Rimmer Durham Simonds, 1918; purchased by the Fogg Art Museum, 1936.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
Accession Year
1936
Object Number
1936.10.1
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The only extant oil sketch by Rimmer, this work was painted on cardboard and intended as a prelude for a larger painting entitled "To the Charge/Off to the Charge," which has been lost.

Publication History

  • Lincoln Kirstein, William Rimmer: 1816-1879, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY, 1946), n.p., no. 22
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 78, ill.
  • Jeffrey Weidman, "William Rimmer: Critical Catalogue Raisonné" (Thesis, Indiana University, 1981), Indiana University, vol. 1, pp. 669-72, 674; vol. V, p. 1564, no. 78 a-b, ill.
  • Jeffrey Weidman, William Rimmer: A Yankee Michelangelo, exh. cat., Brockton Art Museum-Fuller Memorial/University Press of New England (Brockton, MA and Hanover, NH, 1985), pp. 74-75, no. 34, ill. p. 74
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 420, cat. 382, ill.

Exhibition History

  • William Rimmer: 1816-1879, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 11/05/1946 - 11/27/1946; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 01/07/1947 - 02/02/1947
  • American Paintings from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Symphony Hall, Boston, 02/21/1958 - 03/15/1958
  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • William Rimmer: A Yankee Michelangelo, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 02/22/1986 - 04/20/1986; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 06/01/1986 - 07/26/1986

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