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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1921.26
People
William Rimmer, American (Liverpool, England 1816 - 1879 S. Milford, MA)
Title
Morning
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1869
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306250

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red crayon over graphite on a printed portrait mount
Dimensions
45.8 x 32.7 cm (18 1/16 x 12 7/8 in.)
image: 29.8 x 23.5 cm (11 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: red crayon, lower center: W. Rimmer / 1869
  • inscription: lower center, in border, red chalk, in artist's hand: Morning

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
1921.26
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 1921.27, 1936.10.5, 1936.10.65) may have originally been bound in an album.

Publication History

  • Truman Howe Bartlett, The Art Life of William Rimmer, James R. Osgood & Co. (Boston, MA, 1882), repr. pl. XXIV, opposite p. 94, as "Venus and Cupid"
  • Jeffrey Weidman, "William Rimmer: Critical Catalogue Raisonné" (Thesis, Indiana University, 1981), Indiana University, no. 169, pp. 951-953

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

Verification Level

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