- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2001.158.16
- People
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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
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- 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
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- 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
- 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
- 2001.158.16
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- The two smaller landscapes on the verso are drawn with the book oriented vertically.
- 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. 64
- Related Works
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