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A very modern emperor
| Mary Beard on Hadrian.

Evening: Fall of Day by William Rimmer (1869–70).
This curiously sexless figure is a good example of a work by an artist whose reputation may not have been as elevated as many of his contemporaries but who nonetheless created an image which speaks to future generations. Rimmer (1816–1879) was an American artist who produced a number [...]