2001.164.14: Partial Landscape with Mountain; verso: Southwest Harbor Landscape with Sailboat

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2001.164.14

People

Sanford Robinson Gifford, American (Greenfield, NY 1823 - 1880 New York, NY)

Title

Partial Landscape with Mountain; verso: Southwest Harbor Landscape with Sailboat

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

sketchbook page, drawing

Date

1864

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/147377

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: Jul 31 [1864], l.l. of verso, graphite, in artist's hand: Sou'west Harbor / July 31st
• inscription: l.l. of verso, graphite, in artist's hand: Sky & mts grey - rocks light / yellow grass & salmon rocks on / near shore

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

2001.164.14

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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), p. 101

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