Harvard Art Museums > 1936.10.63: Figure of a Man in Elizabethan Costume Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Figure of a Man in Elizabethan Costume (William Rimmer) , 1936.10.63,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/306675. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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 This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
