2001.158.9: Across Round Lake; verso: Dead Trees

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2001.158.9

People

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

Title

Across Round Lake; verso: Dead Trees

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing, sketchbook page

Date

1851

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/147626

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

14.2 x 22 cm (5 9/16 x 8 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: Across Round Lake July 26th 1851
• inscription: upper edge, graphite, in artist's hand: In this circular picture, there would be a warm glow over the whole distance - the meddows [sic] in the nearer / middle ground, richer and darker - foliage [coming?] against the cold green of the bottom, lighter and / warmer

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

2001.158.9

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. 180

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