God the Father Creating the Sun and the Moon

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, 1921.27) may have originally been bound in an album.

Dimensions

45.4 x 32.7 cm (17 7/8 x 12 7/8 in.) image: 29.8 x 23.5 cm (11 3/4 x 9 1/4 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.