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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.158.16
People
Sanford Robinson Gifford, American (Greenfield, NY 1823 - 1880 New York, NY)
Title
Frederick Gifford on Tree Branch; verso: Two Landscapes and Partial Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, sketchbook page
Date
1851
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/147371

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and white chalk on brown wove paper
Dimensions
14.2 x 22 cm (5 9/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: Mr. Frederick Gifford watching for deer on Little Long Lake Sept 6th 1851
  • inscription: center left of verso, graphite, in artist's hand: Indian Lake Sept 9th - / 5 1/2 AM
  • inscription: l.l. of verso, graphite, in artist's hand: D
  • inscription: l.r. of verso, graphite, in artist's hand: "Sile"

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
2001.158.16
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The two smaller landscapes on the verso are drawn with the book oriented vertically.

Publication History

  • Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, University of Delaware Press (Newark, DE, 1987), p. 64

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