2001.159.1-37: Sketchbook ("1852 / Juniatta & Susquehanna"): Pennsylvania Landscapes
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2001.159.1-37
- People
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Sanford Robinson Gifford, American (Greenfield, NY 1823 - 1880 New York, NY)
- Title
- Sketchbook ("1852 / Juniatta & Susquehanna"): Pennsylvania Landscapes
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- sketchbook
- Date
- 1852
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/169778
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Sketchbook with brown-paper-covered cardboard covers and leather-covered spine
- Dimensions
- 15 x 22.5 x 1.4 cm (5 7/8 x 8 7/8 x 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: graphite, u.r. of front pastedown: S R Gifford July 1852
- label: front cover, brown ink, handwritten: 1852. / Juniatta [sic] & / Susquehanna
- inscription: l.l. of front pastedown, black ink: Charles / 3
- label: front pastedown, blue and white paper, black ink, handwritten: No. 141 / [?]
- inscription: u.l. of front pastedown, graphite: Ma. XX / H i Or Gg / i-- [is this shorthand?]
- inscription: rear pastedown, graphite, in artist's hand: Wyoming Monument / Sept 11th
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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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
- 2001.159.1-37
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Sketchbook with brown-paper-covered cardboard covers and brown-leather-covered spine. Covers impressed with design of grapevines. Pages of off-white wove paper, slightly darkened, 14.4 x 22.2 cm. Pages have rounded corners. Sewn page block, mostly unbound. Drawings made in graphite. There appears to be a page missing after p. 30; there is a dark offset on the verso of that page, but the facing page does not have a drawing that corresponds. Rear pastedown has a drawing of an obelisk drawn in a circle.
Publication History
- Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, University of Delaware Press (Newark, DE, 1987), p. 66; 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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Verification Level
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