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, Mar 20, 2025, 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 Objects Object Number 2001.158.40 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Parade with Triumphal Arch for Lajos Kossuth; verso: Studies for Triumphal Arches Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.41 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Triumphal Arch (recto and verso) Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.3 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title High Peak Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.4 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title On Round Lake, New York Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.17 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Partial Landscape Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.18 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Porter's, Indian Lake, New York Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.1 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Plattekill Clove; verso: Rocks? Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.2 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Plattekill Clove Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.11 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Round Lake and Lake Pleasant Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.12 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Satterly's Hill; verso: Piseco Lake, New York Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.13 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Blank page; verso: Faint Landscape with Trees Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.14 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Ox Bow Lake, New York Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.15 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Lake Scene with Hunters in Boat; verso: Rock? Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.16 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Frederick Gifford on Tree Branch; verso: Two Landscapes and Partial Landscape Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.37 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Hudson River Valley Landscape Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.38 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Figures in a Field with Sheaves of Wheat; verso: Six Small Landscapes Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.21 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Sacandaga Landscape Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.23 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Hilly Landscape Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.24 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Adirondack and Hudson Valley Landscape Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.42 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Blank page; verso: Male Portrait Head Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.27 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Hudson River Valley; verso: Three Small Landscapes Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.28 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Male Profile Head in Cap; Two Small Landscapes; verso: Figure in a Landscape Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.29 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Little Beaver Kill Landscape; verso: Faint Treeline Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.30 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Fork of Little Beaver Kill Creek and Willowemock River Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.35 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Rondout Valley, New York; verso: Eliphalet Terry Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.36 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Hunting Figure; Landscape Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.39 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Design for Triumphal Arch for Lajos Kossuth Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.43 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Blank page; verso: Five Small Sketches Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.19 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title View from Maxon Mountain, New York Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.20 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Panoramic Landscape; verso: Slight Landscape Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.22 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Sacandaga Landscape; verso: Hudson River Landscape Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.25 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Hudson River Valley Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.26 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Hilly Landscape with Trees Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.31 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Pond with Rocks in Foreground; verso: Slight Landscape Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.32 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Walnut Ridge, New York Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.33 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title View from Walnut Ridge; verso: Landscape with Mongaup Creek Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.34 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Delaware River and Hudson Canal; verso: Landscape with Church in the Distance Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.5 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Lake Pleasant, New York Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.6 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Camp at Louis Lake [Lewey Lake?] Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.7 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Louis Lake [Lewey Lake?] Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.8 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Fallen Tree Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.9 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Across Round Lake; verso: Dead Trees Classification Drawings Object Number 2001.158.10 Artist Sanford Robinson Gifford Title Incised Landscape Classification Drawings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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