Harvard Art Museums > 2001.160.1-68: Sketchbook: Italy Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Add to Collection Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Sketchbook: Italy (Sanford Robinson Gifford) , 2001.160.1-68,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/169982. Identification and Creation Object Number 2001.160.1-68 People Sanford Robinson Gifford, American (Greenfield, NY 1823 - 1880 New York, NY) Title Sketchbook: Italy Classification Drawings Work Type sketchbook Date 1856-1858 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/169982 Physical Descriptions Medium Sketchbook with brown-paper-covered cardboard covers embossed with flowers Dimensions 9.3 x 14.9 x 1.2 cm (3 11/16 x 5 7/8 x 1/2 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: front pastedown, graphite, in artist's hand: Palazzo Doria - Rome / Herodias with head of J. Baptist - Titian / Sacrifice of Isaac - / Sacrifice to Apollo - Claude / Il Molino inscription: front pastedown, graphite, in artist's hand: [circular map sketch] Pincio / Quirinal / Viminal / Esquiline / Coelio / Palatine / Aventine / Janiculum / Vatican / Mario / Capitoline / north inscription: front pastedown, graphite, in artist's hand: 25. 2.50 / 3. / 4.20 / 5.45 station / 7.15 inscription: rear pastedown, graphite, in artist's hand: 6/12 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 2001.160.1-68 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 flower design. Brown-leather-covered spine. Stamped on cover in decorative letters: ALBUM [but pages drawn from opposite end of book]. Back cover is loose. Sewn page block. Pages of off-white wove paper, 8.8 x 14.6 cm. A page has been cut out after p. 1, leaving a stub. Two caricatured heads drawn on rear pastedown. Publication History Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, University of Delaware Press (Newark, DE, 1987), p. 75-80; 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 Related Works 2001.160.66 Sanford Robinson Gifford Blank Page; verso: Monte Gennaro Landscape Drawings 2001.160.67 Sanford Robinson Gifford Latin Inscription; verso: Partial Castel Nuova Landscape Drawings 2001.160.68 Sanford Robinson Gifford Partial Castel Nuova Landscape; verso: Figure; Tomb Inscription from Via Appia Drawings 2001.160.12 Sanford Robinson Gifford Three Studies of Reclining Men; verso: Two Studies of Standing Men; Partial Landscape Drawings 2001.160.17 Sanford Robinson Gifford Landscape; verso Two Steer Drawings 2001.160.21 Sanford Robinson Gifford Elaborate Fountain; verso: Funeral Procession Drawings 2001.160.16 Sanford Robinson Gifford Horse; verso: Two Studies of a Steer's Head Drawings 2001.160.19 Sanford Robinson Gifford Tree; verso: Mountain Sketch Drawings 2001.160.62 Sanford Robinson Gifford Small Landscape; verso: Sketches of Bulls Drawings 2001.160.11 Sanford Robinson Gifford Small Landscape with Trees; verso: Small Figure Sketches; Small Mountain Landscape Drawings 2001.160.23 Sanford Robinson Gifford Stream with Tree, Nemi, Italy Drawings 2001.160.59 Sanford Robinson Gifford Blank Page; verso: Two Sketches of a Man Carrying a Pole Drawings 2001.160.63 Sanford Robinson Gifford Landscape, Nemi, Italy; Figure Sketches; verso: Small Sketch of Sheep Drawings 2001.160.64 Sanford Robinson Gifford Blank Page; verso: Partial Nemi Landscape Drawings 2001.160.18 Sanford Robinson Gifford Studies of a Swan; Trees Drawings 2001.160.20 Sanford Robinson Gifford Ruined Wall and Tree Drawings 2001.160.22 Sanford Robinson Gifford Mule; Indeterminate Sketch; verso: Tree; Standing Figure Drawings 2001.160.38 Sanford Robinson Gifford Figure Sketches (recto and verso) Drawings 2001.160.49 Sanford Robinson Gifford Landscape near Paestum, Italy; verso: Boat with Pennants Drawings 2001.160.50 Sanford Robinson Gifford Blank page; verso: Crouching Figure Drawings 2001.160.51 Sanford Robinson Gifford Mountain Landscape; verso: Partial Tergensee Landscape with Boats Drawings 2001.160.52 Sanford Robinson Gifford Partial Tergensee Landscape with Boats Drawings 2001.160.57 Sanford Robinson Gifford Artist Sketching at the Shore; verso: Small Landscape Drawings 2001.160.65 Sanford Robinson Gifford Partial Nemi Landscape; Figure Climbing onto Bed?; verso: Tree Drawings 2001.160.13 Sanford Robinson Gifford Partial Landscape; verso: Trees Drawings 2001.160.14 Sanford Robinson Gifford Horse Drawings 2001.160.15 Sanford Robinson Gifford Landscape with Building; verso: Four Sketches of a Man in a Hat Drawings 2001.160.40 Sanford Robinson Gifford Two Studies of Bierstadt; verso: Figure Sketches Drawings 2001.160.41 Sanford Robinson Gifford Male Profile Head; Studies of a Sleeping Donkey; verso: Partial Interior Scene Drawings 2001.160.42 Sanford Robinson Gifford Partial Interior Scene and Figure Sketches; verso: Figure Sketches; Cliff Drawings 2001.160.44 Sanford Robinson Gifford Natural Rock Arch, Capri, Italy; verso: Figure Sketches; Partial Sorrento Landscape Drawings 2001.160.45 Sanford Robinson Gifford Partial Sorrento Landscape; verso: Small Seascape with Castle; Figure Sketches Drawings 2001.160.58 Sanford Robinson Gifford Blank Page; verso: Figure with Cow under a Tree; Caricatured Profile Drawings 2001.160.60 Sanford Robinson Gifford Three Sketches of Women; Torre del Schiavi, Rome, Italy Drawings 2001.160.61 Sanford Robinson Gifford Two Small Sketches of Sheep and Rabbit; verso: Goat Drawings 2001.160.39 Sanford Robinson Gifford Figure Sketches; verso: Albert Bierstadt Painting, Capri, Italy Drawings 2001.160.43 Sanford Robinson Gifford Natural Rock Arch, Capri, Italy (recto and verso) Drawings 2001.160.46 Sanford Robinson Gifford Castle on a Cliff; verso: Town on a Cliffside, with Boats Drawings 2001.160.47 Sanford Robinson Gifford Sea and Cliffs; verso: Landscape Drawings 2001.160.48 Sanford Robinson Gifford Boat and Cliffs, Livorno, Italy; verso: Figure Sketches Drawings 2001.160.53 Sanford Robinson Gifford Tomb, Salisbury Cathedral; verso: Sketches of Cows Drawings 2001.160.54 Sanford Robinson Gifford Small Figure Sketches; Small Landscape Drawings 2001.160.9 Sanford Robinson Gifford Landscape with Building, Near Nemi, Italy Drawings 2001.160.24 Sanford Robinson Gifford Rocca di Papa; verso: Partial Mountain Landscape Drawings 2001.160.30 Sanford Robinson Gifford Landscape, Roccasecca, Italy; verso: Castle, Teano, Italy Drawings 2001.160.33 Sanford Robinson Gifford Partial Landscape, Naples, Italy; verso: Figures with Boat; Buildings Drawings 2001.160.6 Sanford Robinson Gifford Partial Civita Castellana Landscape; verso: Small Landscape with Figures Drawings 2001.160.25 Sanford Robinson Gifford Partial Mountain Landscape Drawings 2001.160.26 Sanford Robinson Gifford Woman and Baby, Valmontone, Italy Drawings 2001.160.27 Sanford Robinson Gifford Village Scene, Italy Drawings 2001.160.28 Sanford Robinson Gifford Landscape with Mountains; verso: Figure Sketch and Sketches of Water Jars Drawings 2001.160.29 Sanford Robinson Gifford Landscape, Arpino, Italy; verso: Landscape, San Gennaro, Italy Drawings 2001.160.31 Sanford Robinson Gifford Mountain Landscape near Gaeta, Italy; verso: Standing Figure with Sword Drawings 2001.160.32 Sanford Robinson Gifford Figures on the Beach, Gaeta, Italy; verso: Partial Landscape, Naples, Italy Drawings 2001.160.1 Sanford Robinson Gifford Two Goats Drawings 2001.160.5 Sanford Robinson Gifford Landscape with Villa; verso: Partial Civita Castellana Landscape Drawings 2001.160.7 Sanford Robinson Gifford Small Sketch of Building Drawings 2001.160.10 Sanford Robinson Gifford Four Goats; verso: Small Mountain Landscape Drawings 2001.160.35 Sanford Robinson Gifford Partial Landscape, Capri (recto and verso) Drawings 2001.160.36 Sanford Robinson Gifford Partial Capri Landscape; verso: Landscape, Miseno, Italy Drawings 2001.160.4 Sanford Robinson Gifford Study of a Girl; verso: Man's Head; Cow's Head Drawings 2001.160.55 Sanford Robinson Gifford Blank Page; verso: Small Figure Sketch; Partial Landscape Drawings 2001.160.56 Sanford Robinson Gifford Partial Landscape; verso: Sheep; Figure Sketch; Landscape Drawings 2001.160.34 Sanford Robinson Gifford Buildings and Figures at the Shore, Castel d'Oro; verso: Partial Capri Landscape and Sailboat Sails Drawings 2001.160.37 Sanford Robinson Gifford Mountain Landscape; verso: Figure Sketches; Men in Boat Drawings 2001.160.3 Sanford Robinson Gifford Lioness, after a sculpture; verso: Study of a Girl and Face Sketch Drawings 2001.160.2 Sanford Robinson Gifford Tree; Two Goats Drawings 2001.160.8 Sanford Robinson Gifford Buildings, Castel Madama, Italy Drawings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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