DrawingsAmerican19th century

Three Sketches of Women; Torre del Schiavi, Rome, Italy

1857

Artists

Sanford Robinson GiffordArtist

Description

Landscape on verso is drawn with horizontal orientation, and is drawn upside down from the book.

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite and brown wash

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

14.6 x 8.8 cm (5 3/4 x 3 7/16 in.)

Provenance

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.

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