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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.161
People
Sanford Robinson Gifford, American (Greenfield, NY 1823 - 1880 New York, NY)
Title
Sketchbook: Adirondacks, Pennsylvania
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook
Date
1851-1852
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/169779

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Sketchbook with black-paper-covered cardboard covers embossed with leaves
Dimensions
9.4 x 15 x 1.4 cm (3 11/16 x 5 7/8 x 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, front pastedown: S R Gifford - June 29th 1851 N.Y.
  • inscription: front pastedown, black ink: JG [or JY?] 5 [the J overwritten in pencil: C]
  • label: front pastedown, paper, black ink, handwritten: 138 1/2 / 6/--

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
2001.161
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sketchbook with black-paper-covered cardboard covers, embossed with a pattern of leaves. Black-leather-covered spine with vertical gold stripe. Paper covering is torn away at l.r. of front cover, l.l. of back cover. Pages of off-white, buff, brown, and cream wove paper, each 8.8 x 14.8 cm. Sixty pages altogether; blank pages were not given database records. On the rear pastedown are sketches of a horse's head, a cow, and figure sketches.

Publication History

  • Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, University of Delaware Press (Newark, DE, 1987), p. 64; p. 332
  • Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2001-2002 (Cambridge, MA, 2003), p. 23

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