DrawingsAmerican19th century

Human Skulls, for "Art Anatomy"

1872

Artists

William RimmerArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite and brown ink on off-white wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

24.3 x 32.2 cm (9 9/16 x 12 11/16 in.)

Provenance

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.

Related Artworks

Drawings

Landscape on the Nile

Denman Waldo Ross, 19th-20th century

Graphite on thin off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Studies for Foot and Arm of Angels, "Israel and the Law," Boston Public Library

John Singer Sargent, 1895 - 1916

Charcoal on blue laid paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Landscape with Tree

Louis Michel Eilshemius, 19th-20th century

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Canal and Church, Venice, Italy

Denman Waldo Ross, 1887

Watercolor on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Rear View of Half-Length Male Nude

Washington Allston, 1806 - 1807

Graphite on blue-gray wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Sketches from a Bullfight; verso: Designs for Ornament

John Singer Sargent, c. 1904

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Ogival Arch Decorated with Roundels, and Head of a Bearded Man

John Singer Sargent, 19th-20th century

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Hand of Baruch for "Jeremiah Dictating...;" verso: Knee and Calf

Washington Allston, 1811 - 1812

Black and white chalk on darkened blue-gray wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Small Seascape with Boat

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1864

Graphite on darkened off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Cupid Holding Conch Shell to the Ear of Venus

William Perkins Babcock, 19th century

Charcoal on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Landscape with Buildings Seen from a Hilltop

Denman Waldo Ross, 19th-20th century

Graphite on thin off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Lake Mooselucmaguntic, Maine

Benjamin Champney, Jun 14 1878

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican