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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
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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

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