DrawingsAmerican19th century

Male Profile Head; verso: Landscape Sketch with Mountain in Background

1845

Artists

Sanford Robinson GiffordArtist

Description

Landscape on the verso is horizontally oriented.

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black pencil on off-white wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

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