DrawingsAmerican19th century

Bear Trap; verso: Tree Trunk and Partial Landscape

1861

Artists

Sanford Robinson GiffordArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite on buff wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

22.8 x 14.2 cm (9 x 5 9/16 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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