2001.164.34: Partial Hampton Beach Seascape; verso: Partial Manchester Landscape
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2001.164.34
- People
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Sanford Robinson Gifford, American (Greenfield, NY 1823 - 1880 New York, NY)
- Title
- Partial Hampton Beach Seascape; verso: Partial Manchester Landscape
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing, sketchbook page
- Date
- 1864
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/147143
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Graphite on darkened off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 13.9 x 22.5 cm (5 1/2 x 8 7/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: Sept 22 1864, l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: Hampton Beach Sept 22nd 1864
- inscription: under image, graphite, in artist's hand: Coat br grey / hat yel; coat yel grey / hat br & yel / lt blue neck ribbon; yel grass & grey sand / lighter than blue sea
- inscription: Jul 29 1865?, l.l. of verso, graphite, in artist's hand: Manchester Mass July 29 65 [sic?]
- inscription: l.l. of verso, graphite, in artist's hand: foggy horizon - sea blue & sparkling - light yellow grey
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
- 2001.164.34
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, University of Delaware Press (Newark, DE, 1987), p. 101
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