DrawingsAmerican19th century

Landscape; verso: Man Writing; Small Landscape; Caricatured Figure

July 3, 1860

Artists

Sanford Robinson GiffordArtist

Description

There is an impression on the page where the pinpoint from the previous page's pinhole was pressed down.

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite and white gouache on darkened off-white wove paper; verso: graphite

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

14 x 24.2 cm (5 1/2 x 9 1/2 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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