- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2001.164.3
- People
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Sanford Robinson Gifford, American (Greenfield, NY 1823 - 1880 New York, NY)
- Title
- Partial Landscape, Mount Desert Island (recto and verso)
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing, sketchbook page
- Date
- 1864
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/147322
- Physical Descriptions
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- 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: l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: Green Mountain Mt. Desert - July 15th '64
- inscription: lower center of verso, graphite, in artist's hand: Lake blue darker than / lighted foliage
- Provenance
- 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
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Sanford Gifford
- Accession Year
- 2001
- Object Number
- 2001.164.3
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, University of Delaware Press (Newark, DE, 1987), p. 246, repr. in b/w p. 247; verso, p. 245
- Related Works
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