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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
drawing, sketchbook page
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
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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), pp. 101, 246

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