DrawingsAmerican19th century

Sleeping Cow; verso: Tree Trunk?

c. 1845-1847

Artists

Sanford Robinson GiffordArtist

Description

The drawing on the verso is vertically oriented.

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown pencil on off-white wove paper; verso: black pencil

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

5.6 x 9.4 cm (2 3/16 x 3 11/16 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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