Harvard Art Museums > 2001.164.8: Partial Landscape Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Partial Landscape (Sanford Robinson Gifford) , 2001.164.8,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 21, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/147325. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2001.164.8 People Sanford Robinson Gifford, American (Greenfield, NY 1823 - 1880 New York, NY) Title Partial Landscape Classification Drawings Work Type sketchbook page, drawing Date 1864 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/147325 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 inscription: l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: Rocks & cleared land lighter than sea / hulls of vessels in shaddow [sic] darker - sails in shade lower / near rocks of foreground not so black as in oil study / forest a shade darker than sea / houses with light & shadow / Sea as dark [midway?] as near shore streaks & patches of / calm lighter - Gradation of sea same as that of a mountain distance / sails like constellations 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 2001.164.8 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, University of Delaware Press (Newark, DE, 1987), pp. 101, 246 Related Works 2001.164.1-38 Sanford Robinson Gifford Sketchbook: Mount Desert Island, Maine Drawings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu