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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.10.63
People
William Rimmer, American (Liverpool, England 1816 - 1879 S. Milford, MA)
Title
Figure of a Man in Elizabethan Costume
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1872
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306675

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
25.5 x 15.5 cm (10 1/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.r.: W. Rimmer
  • exhibition label: mat, paper, printed, typed, and handwritten: [red pencil:] SE 1826

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
1936.10.63
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Truman Howe Bartlett, The Art Life of William Rimmer, James R. Osgood & Co. (Boston, MA, 1882), p. 124, ill. opp. p. 136
  • Lincoln Kirstein, William Rimmer: 1816-1879, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY, 1946), n.p., no. 24
  • Jeffrey Weidman, "William Rimmer: Critical Catalogue Raisonné" (Thesis, Indiana University, 1981), Indiana University, vol. 3, pp. 1002-1004; vol. V, p. 1691, fig. 273, ill.
  • Richard Studing, Shakespeare in American Painting: A Catalogue from the Late Eighteenth Century to the Present, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Rutherford, NJ, 1993), pp. 18, 114, no. 651, 115, ill.
  • Jeffrey Weidman, "William Rimmer", American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: Volume II: Works by Artists Born 1816-1847, Hudson Hills Press and Detroit Institute of Arts Founders Society (New York, 1997), p. 204
  • 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), pp. 419-20, cat. 381, 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

Verification Level

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