DrawingsAmerican19th century

Studies for Statue of Peter Cooper (1791 - 1888) (recto and verso)

1866

Artists

William RimmerArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite on heavy off-white wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

38.7 x 28.1 cm (15 1/4 x 11 1/16 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

Man on Horseback and Horse's Legs

William Rimmer, 1873 - c. 1875

Graphite on blue wove paper

Transparent and opaque watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Sleeping Cow; verso: Tree Trunk?

Sanford Robinson Gifford, c. 1845-1847

Brown pencil on off-white wove paper; verso: black pencil

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Men Fishing, Lake Molly Chunk-a-Muuk, Maine

Benjamin Champney, 1878

Graphite and white gouache on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Nude Male Seated on a Rock, Holding a Staff (Polyphemus)

Washington Allston, 1816 - 1818

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Uriel in the Sun

Washington Allston, 1817

Black ink on buff wove tracing paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Street Scene, Florence, Italy

Denman Waldo Ross, 1896

Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Tracing from William Morris Hunt's "The Discoverer" Fresco, Assembly Chamber, State Capitol, Albany, New York

William Rimmer, 19th century

Charcoal on ivory laid paper, with attached border of blue wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Partial Mountain Landscape; verso: The Old Man of the Mountain, New Hampshire

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1864

Graphite on darkened off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Street Scene

Denman Waldo Ross, 1886

Graphite on blue-flecked gray laid paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

King Arthur of Britain and Queens from the Tomb of Maximilian, Hofkirche, Innsbruck, Austria

John Singer Sargent, 1870 - 1871

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Vesuvius from the Villa de Roma

Ephraim Whitman Gurney, 19th century

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican