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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.10.4
People
William Rimmer, American (Liverpool, England 1816 - 1879 S. Milford, MA)
Title
Seated Figure in Encampment
Other Titles
Former Title: Mourning Figures Outside an Encampment
Former Title: Job Lamenting
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1869
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306794

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on darkened off-white wove paper
Dimensions
22.2 x 31 cm (8 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: W. Rimmer / 69
  • exhibition label: mat, paper, printed, typed, and handwritten: [red pencil:] SE 1826 / [typed:] Illustration for Job? / [graphite:] Male nude [mistakenly switched with 1936.10.65?]

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
1936.10.4
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Lincoln Kirstein, William Rimmer: 1816-1879, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY, 1946), cat. no. 79
  • Jeffrey Weidman, "William Rimmer: Critical Catalogue Raisonné" (Thesis, Indiana University, 1981), Indiana University, no. 168, pp. 950-951

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

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