DrawingsAmerican19th century

Partial White Mountain Landscape; verso: Rocky Outcropping

1864

Artists

Sanford Robinson GiffordArtist

Description

The drawing on the verso is oriented vertically to the book.

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

13.9 x 22.5 cm (5 1/2 x 8 7/8 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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