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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.165.11
People
Sanford Robinson Gifford, American (Greenfield, NY 1823 - 1880 New York, NY)
Title
Three Landscape Sketches; verso: Landscape and Portrait Study of Worthington Whittredge
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Three Landscape Sketches; verso: Landscape and Two Male Figures
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, sketchbook page
Date
1861?
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/147361

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on buff wove paper
Dimensions
22.8 x 14.2 cm (9 x 5 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: u.l., graphite, in artist's hand: Sept 10
  • inscription: center left, verso, graphite, in artist's hand: Sept 10th [?] or Sept 15th [?]

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
2001.165.11
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Kevin J. Avery and Franklin Kelly, ed., Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press (New York; New Haven and London, 2003), pp. 33, 37-38, p. 34 verso repr. fig. 26
  • Kevin J. Avery, Sanford R. Gifford in the Catskills, exh. cat., Thomas Cole National Historic Site (Catskill, New York, 2017), p. 12, repr. as fig 8

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