2001.162.7: Camp on Green Mountain, Mount Desert Island, Maine; verso: Small Landscape and Partial Shore Scene

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2001.162.7

People

Sanford Robinson Gifford, American (Greenfield, NY 1823 - 1880 New York, NY)

Title

Camp on Green Mountain, Mount Desert Island, Maine; verso: Small Landscape and Partial Shore Scene

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

sketchbook page, drawing

Date

1864

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/147013

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on darkened off-white wove paper

Dimensions

8 x 12.6 cm (3 1/8 x 4 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower edge, graphite, in artist's hand: Camp on Green Mtn, Mt Desert July 21st 1864
• inscription: l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: Mr & Mrs. M'E / M. & S. R.

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

2001.162.7

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

The small landscape on the verso is vertical; the partial shore scene, is horizontal.

Publication History

• Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, University of Delaware Press (Newark, DE, 1987), repr., p. 101

Related Works

• 2001.162.1-37

  Sanford Robinson Gifford

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  Drawings

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