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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.10.50
People
William Rimmer, American (Liverpool, England 1816 - 1879 S. Milford, MA)
Title
Seascape: Wellfleet Beach
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Fantasy: Wellfleet Beach
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1867
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306728

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 31.9 x 36.6 cm (12 9/16 x 14 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower center, graphite, in artist's hand: "Oceanside" / The miraculous Escape of W. R. / on Wellfleet Beach. M.H.C.R. in distance. 1867
  • inscription: verso, graphite: This is one of our summer sketches / always made by father-- and this a / special one, a charicature [sic] of himself and Mother. / Mother always anxious lest father be taken off / his feet by the heavy undertow of the ocean / edge ot "Ocean side Cape Cod [sic]

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
1936.10.50
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jeffrey Weidman, "William Rimmer: Critical Catalogue Raisonné" (Thesis, Indiana University, 1981), Indiana University, no. 110, pp. 878-879

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