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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.10.67
People
William Rimmer, American (Liverpool, England 1816 - 1879 S. Milford, MA)
William Morris Hunt, American (Brattleboro, VT 1824 - 1879 Isles of Shoals, NH)
Title
Tracing from William Morris Hunt's "The Discoverer" Fresco, Assembly Chamber, State Capitol, Albany, New York
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310134

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on ivory laid paper, with attached border of blue wove paper
Dimensions
29 x 44.2 cm (11 7/16 x 17 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: LALANNE
  • inscription: l.r., black ink: The design "Discovery" [sic] can be easily seen
  • inscription: u.r., graphite: This is the sheet father used in tracing / in Hunt's drawing of Discovery [sic] he rubbed it with / charcoal for transfer & this is one used against / the painting which was spoiled by the black [striking?] / through in use of alcohol--
  • inscription: verso, l.r., black ink: This is the sheet which when met with / fixitif [sic] struck through to the picture of father's "The Battlefield" against which it leaned & spoiled father's / painting named above. // This is the sheet of paper used by / my father, W. Rimmer, in his art to help / Mr. W. M. Hunt in his first sketches for Albany Frescoes / This Discovery [sic]-- father was tracing so as accurately to locate / the design by Mr. H. and not destroy it in his corrections or suggestions in the / corrections asked for by Mr. Hunt of my father. C. H. Rimmer

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
1936.10.67
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. 387, pp. 1181-1182

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