Harvard Art Museums > 2001.158: Sketchbook ("1851 / Northern New York") Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Sketchbook ("1851 / Northern New York") (Sanford Robinson Gifford) , 2001.158,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/169981. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2001.158 People Sanford Robinson Gifford, American (Greenfield, NY 1823 - 1880 New York, NY) Title Sketchbook ("1851 / Northern New York") Classification Drawings Work Type sketchbook Date 1851 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/169981 Physical Descriptions Medium Sketchbook with brown-paper-covered cardboard covers Dimensions 15 x 22.6 x 1.5 cm (5 7/8 x 8 7/8 x 9/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: graphite, front pastedown: S R Gifford / 1851 label: cover of book, paper, brown ink, handwritten: 1851. / Northern New York / Lake Pleasant & c. / Sullivan Co. Rondout [Ride?] / Hudson label: front pastedown, paper, black ink, handwritten: 141 / [81?] inscription: rear pastedown, graphite, in artist's hand: Lt. Red / Olive Green 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 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Sketchbook with brown-paper-covered cardboard covers, embossed with ivy leaf pattern. Brown leather spine. Sewn page block (binding broken). Pages of off-white wove paper, 14.2 x 22 cm. Drawings mostly graphite, some with white chalk added; one watercolor. The page following p. 1 has been cut out and a stub remains. Front pastedown has a small graphite sketch of a tent. Rear pastedown has graphite sketches of a standing man in a fez, seated figures, and a circular landscapes. 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 Sandra Kelberlau, "How One Landscape-Painter Paints: The Technique of Sanford Robinson Gifford" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, June 2006), Unpublished, pp. 1-8 passim Exhibition History Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2006 - 10/22/2006 Related Works 2001.158.40 Sanford Robinson Gifford Parade with Triumphal Arch for Lajos Kossuth; verso: Studies for Triumphal Arches Drawings 2001.158.41 Sanford Robinson Gifford Triumphal Arch (recto and verso) Drawings 2001.158.3 Sanford Robinson Gifford High Peak Drawings 2001.158.4 Sanford Robinson Gifford On Round Lake, New York Drawings 2001.158.17 Sanford Robinson Gifford Partial Landscape Drawings 2001.158.18 Sanford Robinson Gifford Porter's, Indian Lake, New York Drawings 2001.158.1 Sanford Robinson Gifford Plattekill Clove; verso: Rocks? Drawings 2001.158.2 Sanford Robinson Gifford Plattekill Clove Drawings 2001.158.11 Sanford Robinson Gifford Round Lake and Lake Pleasant Drawings 2001.158.12 Sanford Robinson Gifford Satterly's Hill; verso: Piseco Lake, New York Drawings 2001.158.13 Sanford Robinson Gifford Blank page; verso: Faint Landscape with Trees Drawings 2001.158.14 Sanford Robinson Gifford Ox Bow Lake, New York Drawings 2001.158.15 Sanford Robinson Gifford Lake Scene with Hunters in Boat; verso: Rock? Drawings 2001.158.16 Sanford Robinson Gifford Frederick Gifford on Tree Branch; verso: Two Landscapes and Partial Landscape Drawings 2001.158.37 Sanford Robinson Gifford Hudson River Valley Landscape Drawings 2001.158.38 Sanford Robinson Gifford Figures in a Field with Sheaves of Wheat; verso: Six Small Landscapes Drawings 2001.158.21 Sanford Robinson Gifford Sacandaga Landscape Drawings 2001.158.23 Sanford Robinson Gifford Hilly Landscape Drawings 2001.158.24 Sanford Robinson Gifford Adirondack and Hudson Valley Landscape Drawings 2001.158.42 Sanford Robinson Gifford Blank page; verso: Male Portrait Head Drawings 2001.158.27 Sanford Robinson Gifford Hudson River Valley; verso: Three Small Landscapes Drawings 2001.158.28 Sanford Robinson Gifford Male Profile Head in Cap; Two Small Landscapes; verso: Figure in a Landscape Drawings 2001.158.29 Sanford Robinson Gifford Little Beaver Kill Landscape; verso: Faint Treeline Drawings 2001.158.30 Sanford Robinson Gifford Fork of Little Beaver Kill Creek and Willowemock River Drawings 2001.158.35 Sanford Robinson Gifford Rondout Valley, New York; verso: Eliphalet Terry Drawings 2001.158.36 Sanford Robinson Gifford Hunting Figure; Landscape Drawings 2001.158.39 Sanford Robinson Gifford Design for Triumphal Arch for Lajos Kossuth Drawings 2001.158.43 Sanford Robinson Gifford Blank page; verso: Five Small Sketches Drawings 2001.158.19 Sanford Robinson Gifford View from Maxon Mountain, New York Drawings 2001.158.20 Sanford Robinson Gifford Panoramic Landscape; verso: Slight Landscape Drawings 2001.158.22 Sanford Robinson Gifford Sacandaga Landscape; verso: Hudson River Landscape Drawings 2001.158.25 Sanford Robinson Gifford Hudson River Valley Drawings 2001.158.26 Sanford Robinson Gifford Hilly Landscape with Trees Drawings 2001.158.31 Sanford Robinson Gifford Pond with Rocks in Foreground; verso: Slight Landscape Drawings 2001.158.32 Sanford Robinson Gifford Walnut Ridge, New York Drawings 2001.158.33 Sanford Robinson Gifford View from Walnut Ridge; verso: Landscape with Mongaup Creek Drawings 2001.158.34 Sanford Robinson Gifford Delaware River and Hudson Canal; verso: Landscape with Church in the Distance Drawings 2001.158.5 Sanford Robinson Gifford Lake Pleasant, New York Drawings 2001.158.6 Sanford Robinson Gifford Camp at Louis Lake [Lewey Lake?] Drawings 2001.158.7 Sanford Robinson Gifford Louis Lake [Lewey Lake?] Drawings 2001.158.8 Sanford Robinson Gifford Fallen Tree Drawings 2001.158.9 Sanford Robinson Gifford Across Round Lake; verso: Dead Trees Drawings 2001.158.10 Sanford Robinson Gifford Incised Landscape Drawings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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