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God the Father Creating the Sun and the Moon
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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.
Department of Drawings
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.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Louise E. Bettens Fund
Title: God the Father Creating the Sun and the Moon
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.
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