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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.160.1
People
Sanford Robinson Gifford, American (Greenfield, NY 1823 - 1880 New York, NY)
Title
Two Goats
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, sketchbook page
Date
1856?
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/146993

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and wash on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
8.8 x 14.6 cm (3 7/16 x 5 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, graphite, in artist's hand: May 7 Left Rome [ ] am with Whittredge Beard / & Bierstadt - carriage to Castel Gandolfo - Funeral / of a child/carried on a board decked with flowers on / a boys head - followed by a woman & preced by a / priest with book & boy with cross - walked / through the Galleria to Albano & Arricia & Genzano / & by the lake of Nemi to Nemi - sketched by the / way - [something crossed out, illeg.] En Res in Eve

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
By descent through artist's family, 1880; Alice Carter Gifford, Cambridge, MA; bequeathed to her son Sanford Gifford, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2001.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Sanford Gifford
Accession Year
2001
Object Number
2001.160.1
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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