DrawingsAmerican19th century

Panoramic Landscape; verso: Slight Landscape

1851

Artists

Sanford Robinson GiffordArtist

Description

The landscape on the verso is drawn in a vertical orientation to the book.

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite and white chalk on brown wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

14.2 x 22 cm (5 9/16 x 8 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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