DrawingsAmerican19th century

Partial Landscape with Buildings; verso: Two Small Landscapes

1864

Artists

Sanford Robinson GiffordArtist

Description

One of the small landscapes on the verso is vertically oriented; one is horizontal.

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite on darkened off-white wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

8 x 12.6 cm (3 1/8 x 4 15/16 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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