Harvard Art Museums > 1.2019: Leander’s Tower, Constantinople Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Add to Collection Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Leander’s Tower, Constantinople (Sanford Robinson Gifford) , 1.2019,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 19, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/363037. Identification and Creation Object Number 1.2019 People Sanford Robinson Gifford, American (Greenfield, NY 1823 - 1880 New York, NY) Title Leander’s Tower, Constantinople Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date c. 1876 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/363037 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 33.3 × 69.5 cm (13 1/8 × 27 3/8 in.) frame: 65.8 × 102 cm (25 7/8 × 40 3/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: verso, frame, top center: X inscription: recto, lower right, brown paint: S R Gifford 1876 Provenance Recorded Ownership History Sterling Smith, by 1880, by descent; to his heirs; to Seth McGovern Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from Seth McGovern Object Number 1.2019 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. Publication History Gifford Memorial Meeting of the Century, Century Rooms (New York, November 19, 1880), p. 10. cat. 59 John F. Weir, A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N.A., exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1881), p. 42, cat. 644 Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, University of Delaware Press (Newark, DE, 1987), p. 304 Kevin J. Avery and Franklin Kelly, ed., Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press (New York; New Haven and London, 2003), p. 218, n. 8 Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 223, under cat. 174 Related Works 1895.716 Sanford Robinson Gifford Leander's Tower on the Bosporus Paintings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
