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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1948.55
People
William Rimmer, American (Liverpool, England 1816 - 1879 S. Milford, MA)
Title
The Reverend Calvin Hitchcock
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1841-1846
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229536

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
92 x 73.8 cm (36 1/4 x 29 1/16 in.)
framed: 107.3 x 89.9 x 7 cm (42 1/4 x 35 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
By descent through family; to Henry Russell Hitchcock; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1948.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Professor Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Accession Year
1948
Object Number
1948.55
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), no. 7, n.p.
  • Jeffrey Weidman, "William Rimmer: Critical Catalogue Raisonné" (Thesis, Indiana University, 1981), Indiana University, vol. 11, pp. 411-13; vol. V, p. 1514, fig. 22, ill.
  • Jeffrey Weidman, William Rimmer: A Yankee Michelangelo, exh. cat., Brockton Art Museum-Fuller Memorial/University Press of New England (Brockton, MA and Hanover, NH, 1985), p. 48
  • 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. 417-18, cat. 379, 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

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