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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1921.27
People
William Rimmer, American (Liverpool, England 1816 - 1879 S. Milford, MA)
Title
Philip Preparing the Funeral of Pompey the Great
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1867
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306076

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink over graphite on a printed portrait mount
Dimensions
32.9 x 45.3 cm (12 15/16 x 17 13/16 in.)
image: 23.4 x 30 cm (9 3/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: W. Rimmer 1867
  • inscription: l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: Philip preparing the funeral of Pompey the Great-- see Plutarch

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
From the artist to his daughter Caroline Hunt Rimmer at his death, 1879; to her niece, Edith Rimmer Durham Simonds Lexington, MA, 1918; her gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1921.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Henry Simonds
Accession Year
1921
Object Number
1921.27
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This was drawn on a sheet with a lithographed border in the shape of an oval. Cloth tape at left edge of sheet; portrait mounts (see 1921.26, 1936.10.5) may have originally been bound in an album.

Publication History

  • Lincoln Kirstein, William Rimmer: 1816-1879, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY, 1946), no. 75
  • Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr., The American Line: 100 Years of Drawing, exh. cat., Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, MA, 1959), repr., no. 48
  • 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. 77, ill.
  • Martha J. Hoppin, ed., Late Nineteenth Century American Drawings and Watercolors, exh. cat., University Gallery, University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA, 1977), no. 29, pp. 45-47
  • Jeffrey Weidman, "William Rimmer: Critical Catalogue Raisonné" (Thesis, Indiana University, 1981), Indiana University, no. 104, pp. 861-864
  • 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), repr. in b/w, no. 53, p. 93

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Sculptures, Oil Paintings and Drawings by Dr. William Rimmer, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/01/1880 - 11/15/1880
  • Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture by the Late Dr. William Rimmer on Exhibition and Private Sale, J. Eastman Chase's Gallery, Boston, 02/01/1883 - 02/28/1883
  • 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
  • The American Line: 100 Years of Drawing, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 01/01/1959 - 02/15/1959; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 03/01/1959 - 03/21/1959; Newcomb College, New Orleans, 04/02/1959 - 04/22/1959; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, 05/04/1959 - 05/24/1959; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, 06/10/1959 - 06/30/1959; Oglebay Institute, Wheeling, 08/01/1959 - 08/21/1959; Kansas State Teachers' College, Emporia, 09/03/1959 - 09/23/1959; Frye Museum, Seattle, 10/05/1959 - 10/25/1959; Tucson Art Center, Tucson, 11/08/1959 - 11/29/1959; Madison Art Association, Madison, 12/08/1959 - 12/31/1959; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, 01/17/1960 - 02/21/1960; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, 03/05/1960 - 03/25/1960; Root Art Center, Hamilton, 04/10/1960 - 06/05/1960
  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • American Drawings and Watercolors, 1850-1910, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 05/14/1977 - 06/05/1977
  • William Rimmer: A Yankee Michelangelo, Brockton Art Center-Fuller Memorial, Brockton, 10/06/1985 - 01/12/1986; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 02/22/1986 - 04/20/1986; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 06/01/1986 - 07/26/1986

Verification Level

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