Sketch for "To the Charge!"

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Description

The only extant oil sketch by Rimmer, this work was painted on cardboard and intended as a prelude for a larger painting entitled "To the Charge/Off to the Charge," which has been lost.

Dimensions

31 x 46.3 cm (12 3/16 x 18 1/4 in.) framed: 37.8 x 52.7 x 3.8 cm (14 7/8 x 20 3/4 x 1 1/2 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.