1936.10.9: Foreshortened Nude Male Figure
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1936.10.9
- People
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William Rimmer, American (Liverpool, England 1816 - 1879 S. Milford, MA)
- Title
- Foreshortened Nude Male Figure
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Male Nude
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1876-1877
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/306783
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Graphite on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 18 x 21.7 cm (7 1/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: graphite, l.l. and lower center.: WR
- inscription: lower center, graphite: [ ] by CHR
- inscription: right edge, graphite: On back of this paper are corrections to be made in / pages of Art Anatomy by one employed to copy text.
- inscription: verso, brown ink: 2 [and then corrections to Art Anatomy. Weidman identifies them as pages 5-11 of part II]
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
- 1936.10.9
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Jeffrey Weidman, "William Rimmer: Critical Catalogue Raisonné" (Thesis, Indiana University, 1981), Indiana University, no. 307, p. 1116; illus. 380
Verification Level
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