Philip Preparing the Funeral of Pompey the Great

Artists

Description

This was drawn on a sheet with a lithographed border in the shape of an oval. Cloth tape at left edge of sheet; portrait mounts (see 1921.26, 1936.10.5) may have originally been bound in an album.

Dimensions

32.9 x 45.3 cm (12 15/16 x 17 13/16 in.) image: 23.4 x 30 cm (9 3/16 x 11 13/16 in.)

Provenance

From the artist to his daughter Caroline Hunt Rimmer at his death, 1879; to her niece, Edith Rimmer Durham Simonds Lexington, MA, 1918; her gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1921.