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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.164.1-38
People
Sanford Robinson Gifford, American (Greenfield, NY 1823 - 1880 New York, NY)
Title
Sketchbook: Mount Desert Island, Maine
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook
Date
1864
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/169781

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Sketchbook with brown-fabric-covered cardboard covers
Dimensions
14.6 x 23.2 x 1.4 cm (5 3/4 x 9 1/8 x 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, front pastedown: S R Gifford / 15 10th St. New York - 1864
  • label: front pastedown, paper, black ink, graphite, printed and handwritten: [printed:] ART & ARTISTS' EMPORIUM. / GOUPIL & CO. / M. KNOEDLER SUCCESSOR, / 772 Broadway, New York. / No. [graphite:] [55¢?]
  • inscription: front pastedown, black ink: Charles
  • inscription: front pastedown, graphite: [sun?] / S R
  • inscription: rear pastedown, graphite, in artist's hand: Shawangunk Lake / water darker than objects above - rocks under water warmer than parts above / & lighter than water - darkening down / trees on [ ] side lighter / in large picture make [rays?] from trees on edge of ridges

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
2001.164.1-38
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sketchbook with brown-fabric-covered cardboard covers with impressed design of dots. Sewn page block. Binding completely broken away from spine. Pages of darkened off-white wove paper, 13.9 x 22.5 cm. Drawings in graphite. Rear pastedown features a small seascape and a small sketch of a reclining figure. Also a map of Mt. Desert Island and surrounding area.

Publication History

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

Exhibition History

  • Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2006 - 10/22/2006

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