1921.28: Study for "And Satan Came Also"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1921.28

People

William Rimmer, American (Liverpool, England 1816 - 1879 S. Milford, MA)

Title

Study for "And Satan Came Also"

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1877

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/306077

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on buff wove paper

Dimensions

32 x 36.8 cm (12 5/8 x 14 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, l.r.: W. Rimmer
• inscription: l.r., graphite: Study for picture / "And Satan Came Also"
• inscription: verso, l.l., graphite: 75--

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

1921.28

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Truman Howe Bartlett, The Art Life of William Rimmer, James R. Osgood & Co. (Boston, MA, 1882), p. 124; reproduced in b/w at u.l. facing p. 72
• Jeffrey Weidman, "William Rimmer: Critical Catalogue Raisonné" (Thesis, Indiana University, 1981), Indiana University, no. 313, p. 1122; illus. 386
• 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), reproduced in b/w, ill. 15, p. 91

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